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Even when you’re out of Nigeria, you’re still haunted, you still need therapy. You’re always going to be Nigerian even when you change your passport. If there are things that ring of suspicion at any international airport, you’re still singled out for questioning.

— Jumoke Verissimo

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The world is afraid to read poetry, but the world is full of poetry.

I come from a place where family speaks of love and sacrifice.

Don’t we know it already, don’t we? To age in this land, is to arrive in a grave?

Poetry is something that I enjoy doing. I do other forms of writing, and it captures the essence of several things. It is my way of understanding the world and how it works.

We know fear. We are not afraid. Our concern is that this power we carry is nothing before those who do not know what it means to be strong.

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