Written by: Muhammed Abdullahi Tosin

I have used the word ‘fakism’ in this context to mean an absence of genuineness and a lack of originality or unique author’s voice. Linguistically, the word is a bastadized derivative of the English adjective, ‘fake’.

Now what exactly are we talking about here? What the heck is ‘fakism’? What is so disgusting and undesirable about it to the art and craft of writing that it must be eliminated, that it must be deemed a concept destined for extinction? And if killing ‘fakism’ is the sensible thing the writer should do, how does he go about it?

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