What happens when food, memory, identity, and spirit weave into one story?
Jollof, Stars and the Mirror is not just a diary, not just a novel, not just a meditation on life. It is all of these at once. Moving between the everyday rhythms of London and vast inner landscapes of consciousness, Raphael Ogwuda-Zernoff blends cultural observation, metaphysical reflection, and intimate storytelling.
Through meals shared, dreams recorded, and encounters that test love, belonging, and self-understanding, the book reveals how the smallest daily acts, cooking rice, walking to work, meeting a stranger, open into the largest questions. Who am I. Where do I belong. What does it mean to live freely.
Layered with themes of migration, cultural duality, spirituality, queerness, and healing, this is a quiet, luminous exploration of identity and remembrance. It honours Nigerian heritage while speaking to universal experiences of self-acceptance, transformation, and the search for home within.