Sharon Dodua Otoo

Sharon Dodua Otoo (born in 1972) in Ilford, London. She is a British writer, publicist and an activist. She writes prose, essays, edited the book series 'Witnessed' and curates the German-language literature festival 'Resonanzen'. She won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016.

Ada's Room

 * love is a worn-out concept anyway—and one that quickly leads to terrible decisions and, even worse, pop music.[


 * Before my eyes an all-encompassing blackness spread. A hole. Were I to fall into it, there would be no escape.


 * Men who actually considered themselves to be the "good ones" and yet-between the Africans on one side and the women on the other-never knew where to expect the next challenge to their God-given authority and therefore fought preemptively on every front at once.