Blessing Tarfa
When Blessing Tarfa was younger, he wanted to be a doctor. It was a dream his parents fostered because it was as much his as theirs. His was really a fantasy to be just like Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a lead character in one of his dad’s collections of novels. When the rising insurgency in Northeast Nigeria affected school admissions and access, it exposed his parents’ limitations in funding that dream. So, he never became a doctor. However, his ambition morphed into being someone that could write something potent and meaningful enough to make any person pursue ambitions towards becoming a character from his story. He wants to write something truly enjoyable that is pivotal to the lives of people.