[8] In April 2020, the deputy editor of Brittle Paper, Otosirieze Obi-Young, stopped working for the publication over an internal editorial dispute.
Hadiza Isma El-Rufai had defended her son's threat to gang-rape a Twitter user during an argument on the social network, saying "Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
The next day, Obi-Young ignited a social media controversy with a public statement posted to his blog.
The statement included unverified accusations against Brittle Paper and its editor,[10] and spawned conspiracy theories on Twitter.
[15] In 2016, her writings were published in British newspaper The Guardian, where she observed discrimination in the perception of African writers by some stakeholders in the literary circle.