FORA.tv Speaker - Uwem Akpan

Uwem Akpan is a native of Nigeria and a Jesuit priest. His New Yorker début story, "An Ex-Mas Feast," ran in 2005 and appeared in his story collection, "Say You're One of Them," which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and a PEN/Beyond Margins Award. His story "Baptizing the Gun" ran in the January 4th issue of the magazine.