Born on 29 July 1977, to lecturer Sam Coker and Cuisinier extraordinaire Maria Kone Coker, ’Bella Nzewi began her writing career at the age of ten. Her first book, though never published, was carefully typed by her doting and ever-encouraging mother and was titled James and His Monkey.
She never wrote another book from that moment until now.
She walks in the gardens of the Parc Exflora for the first time in three days. The 55 days of the first confinement are over and she cannot believe her eyes. For the first time she imagines, really imagines what it must have been like for Noah and the other seven, to be locked up in an “Ark” for...