A Room, a Home, a Country of One’s Own

by Ope Adedeji

In Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”, she says a woman must have money and a room of one’s own if she is to write fiction. For me, Woolf’s meaning of the word “room” could extend to seeking jobs that provide financial freedom, writing other kinds of profitable stories and taking on ‘serious’ jobs — didn’t Buchi Emecheta say that living entirely off…