Molara Wood

Molara Wood (born 1967) is a Nigerian creative writer, journalist and critic. She has been described as one of the eminent voices in the Arts in Nigeria. Her short stories, flash fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications.

Quotes

• There is not enough variety to cater to the sheer range, kaleidoscope & palette of human experience and feeling. No sense of what music is in appropriate for certain settings.
  • Molara on Nigerian Music in 2022.
• It’s a relatively new platform offered by technology for us to continue to express ourselves; for us to continue to reach out to others and to facilitate conversation. And so, we have to embrace it. It’s the way the world is going. We have to embrace it.
  • Molara spoke on podcast as a new technology for the people in 2020.
• When it’s your goal to bring more people into the life that the art can spring, what do you do? You have to find other ways of giving expression to that side of yourself.
  • Molara on writing as a form of art in 2020.
• We are not short of talents in this country. We are not short of art practitioners who give a lot of thought to what they do.
  • Molara on Nigerian talents in 2020.
• We have to realize that the time one is giving to writing reviews is time that could be devoted to personal work.
  • Molara on writing reviews.
• There’s a kind of generosity about pushing the works of other people, even when there is no reward.
  • Molara spoke on supporting other people.