Season 3 Episode 5: In Conversation with Maame Blue
Maame Blue is a Ghanaian writer splitting her time between Melbourne and London. Her work has appeared in various places including Black Ballad, The Independent, AFREADA, Storm Cellar Quarterly (USA), Memoir Mag (USA), Litro Magazine and The Good Journal.
Her short story Howl appears in the New Australian Fiction 2020 anthology, and her debut novel Bad Love, published by Jacaranda Books, was longlisted for the Not The Booker Prize 2020 and chosen by Cheltenham Literature Festival as one of their top three debut novels of 2020. She also co-hosts the podcast Headscarves and Carry-ons - about black girls loving abroad.
Bad Love (Jacaranda Books) tells the story of Ekuah Danquah, a London born Ghanaian who is 18 years old when she falls in love for the first time. As both narrator and protagonist now in her 30s, she delves into her memories of angst and confusion that dismantled her experience of that first, impactful romantic relationship.
SHOW NOTES
Buy Bad Love from Bookshop.Org
Listen to the Bad Love audiobook.
IG Live between Dapo and Maame about the cover art for Bad Love
Tickets for Jacaranda’s Online Book Festival (5th December)
Headscarves and Black Lives Matter
Learn more about Warsan Shire the Somali-British poet quoted by Beyoncé in Lemonade
Some books that Maame read and loved in 2020:
