Originally published in The Washington Post “You are yourself a haunting thing.” These words come as no great shock to Nigerian-Tamil author Akwaeke Emezi. After all, they believe they were born an ogbanje, or Igbo spirit. “Ogbanje come and go,” Emezi writes in “Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit memoir.” “They are never really here — if you are a thing that was born to die, … Continue reading A review of ‘Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit memoir’ by Akwaeke Emezi