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The architects must only have thought of women when they designed retirement homes, and assumed they liked to sit and stare solemnly at gardens all day.

— Sarah Ladipo Manyika Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

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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.

IN DEPENDENCE (2008)

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.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

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.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

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.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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