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Negritude is an ideology of the elite, completely devoid of meaning for the masses ... Negritude is an ideology suggesting that Africans are blessed with a soul and not reason. They would have us believe that Africans can sing, dance and feel, but not think.

— Sarah Ladipo Manyika IN DEPENDENCE (2008)

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" The future of Nigeria is no longer in it's army as some of us used to think, but in the oil business.

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I write for myself and anyone else who enjoys a good story and is eager to read about characters that are still underrepresented in literature.

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A book reads us as much as we read a book.

Is every, every?’ ‘Everything’s fine,’ I say, sensing her struggle with the words.

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The peripatetic nature of my childhood compounded my teenage sense of not quite belonging, nudging me ever closer to books in an on-going search for home.

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