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Robtel Neejai Pailey is a Liberian scholar, author, and activist. After studying at Howard University, the University of Oxford and SOAS, University of London, she started teaching at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Reading unlocks the imagination, but it also unlocks the soul of a person. It has the potential to unlock the soul of a nation like Liberia struggling so desperately to find and define itself.

Despite the rhetoric about globalisation’s free flow of ideas, capital and technology, the world remains obsessed with restricting the movement of people who don’t fit into neat boxes of what is tolerable or even desirable.

I thought I’d become immune to the indignities of travelling with an African passport, but an encounter last month proved me wrong.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robtel Neajai Pailey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.