Damilare Kuku is a Nigerian creative artist who has worked as a radio presenter, scriptwriter, film producer, Nollywood actress, and director. She has starred in both television and movies and currently resides in Nigeria with her husband. She has written the story collection Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad and her newest novel Only Big BumBum Matters Tomorrow.

In Nigerian families, none of your business is private. Not even if it's about your bumbum.

Freshly out of Obafemi Awolowo University, 20-year-old Temi has a clear plan for her future: she is going to surgically enlarge her backside like all the other Nigerian women, move from Ile-Ife to Lagos, and meet a man who will love her senseless.

But when she finally finds the courage to tell her mother, older sister, and aunties, her announcement causes an uproar. As each of the other women try to cure Temi of what seems like temporary insanity, they begin to spill long-buried secrets, including the truth of Temi’s older sister’s mysterious disappearance five years earlier.

In the end, it seems like Temi might be the sanest of them all…

Karis McPherson is an American writer, photographer, curator of conversation and Founder of LIFTed UNITED, a platform to promote and support both emerging and established writers globally.

DAMILARE KUKU in conversation with KARIS MCPHERSON, for the American Book Launch of “Only Big Bum Bum’s Matter Tomorrow”