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born 1980 Nigeria
Yewande Omotoso (born 1980) is a South African-based novelist, architect and designer, who was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria. She is the daughter of Nigerian writer Kole Omotoso, and the sister of filmmaker Akin Omotoso.
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The pieces of life, even when put together, assembled, never amount to the life itself.
She understood what perhaps they are only just learning. That if you attempt to clean the messiness of life you end up scrubbing the life away from living. We can't excise joy from pain.
Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning.
Dangerous women show up sometimes, they disturb something
Identity is complex. I love being a Nigerian, I love belonging to that identity even if my belonging is complex, due to my multiple identities and migratory life experience
Many of the women on the island of my birth are like this. Their bow tongues launch arrows into the world and never miss their mark
My mother died when I was 23, and apart from the recent birth of my children, that is the most profound experience of my life. The grief that followed is a sharp memory of mine and I’ve often joked that the experience irrevocably marked my writing.
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