I Like The U.s. And Feel Gratitude

The Problem With Gender Is That It Prescribes How We Should Be, Rather Than Recognising How We Are.

At About The Age Of Seven … I Wrote Exactly The Kinds Of Stories I Was Reading: All My Characters Were White And Blue-eyed, They Played In The Snow, They Ate Apples, And They Talked A Lot About The Weather: How Lovely It Was That The Sun Had Come Out. This Despite The Fact That I Lived In Nigeria; We Didn’t Have Snow, We Ate Mangoes, And We Never Talked About The Weather, Because There Was No Need To.

We Do Not Just Risk Repeating History If We Sweep It Under The Carpet, We Also Risk Being Myopic About Our Present.

Our Histories Cling To Us. We Are Shaped By Where We Come From.

I’m Very Feminist In The Way I Look At The World, And That Worldview Must Somehow Be Part Of My Work.