In the StoryThe Songs She Never Heard
Reni has been deaf since birth. She remembers songs that actually exist. In Lagos, melodies surface in a life where they should not exist in this form. For Reni Adeyemi, the experience raises a private question before it becomes anyone else’s. Where do these songs come from? What do they say about the person she might have been?
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
Reni looked at the timeline. The film followed Sola Akinwale, a singer and producer, from her first concerts to a recent tour. Reni knew Sola mostly as a face on posters. She had never needed her music. For her work, a song was first an object of synchronization: speech onset, displayed lyrics, background sounds to describe, music covering a sentence or changing a scene’s intent.Read the excerpt ↗