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In Nigeria, we have given ourselves no other option than the institutional use of the English language. We haven’t, in addition, provided the necessity and the resources of mastering the use of multiple languages. And that opportunity is so pertinent.

— Yemisi Aribisala

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There are so many dissimilarities, so many unique points of difference between this one country in Africa and the rest of the world.

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The more handling of a wide variety of food that one can manage the more open one’s mind and palate.

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Investing one’s own disadvantage in words: Opening an artery onto the page, that kind of thing, apart from a love for the theme being written on.

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