I Like The U.s. And Feel Gratitude

In Primary School In South-eastern Nigeria, I Was Taught That Hosni Mubarak Was The President Of Egypt. I Learned The Same Thing In Secondary School. In University, Mubarak Was Still President Of Egypt. I Came To Assume, Subconsciously, That He - And Others Like Paul Biya In Cameroon And Muammar Gaddafi In Libya - Would Never Leave.

Richard Exhaled. It Was Like Somebody Sprinkling Pepper On His Wound: Thousands Of Biafrans Were Dead, And This Man Wanted To Know If There Was Anything New About One Dead White Man. Richard Would Write About This, The Rule Of Western Journalism: One Hundred Dead Black People Equal To One Dead White Person.

One Of The Things That Struck Me When I Came To The U.s. Was Discovering American Poverty.

She Wanted To Ask Him Why They Were All Strangers Who Shared The Same Last Name.

If You Start Thinking About Being Likable You Are Not Going To Tell Your Story Honestly.