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Maryam Abdulkarim<\/em> is a Nigerian writer and journalist. She writes in the same way she observes life: with nostalgia, awe, and a curiosity for the unknown. Maryam\u2019s short fictions have been published in Afrocritik, Kalahari Review, Wensum Journal, Usawa Literary Review, and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maryam finds that when she is not at work or sleeping, she can be found in a caf\u00e9 somewhere in the city, drinking tea and watching people, then with her hands on a keyboard, giving answers to the things about them that make her wonder.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6811,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"writer_category":[],"writer_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6808","writer","type-writer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thb-post-share-style1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMaryam Abdulkarim - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/maryam-abdulkarim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maryam Abdulkarim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maryam Abdulkarim is a Nigerian writer and journalist. 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