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Now I know that speaking good English is not the measure of intelligent mind and sharp brain. English is only a language, like Yoruba and Igbo and Hausa. Nothing about it is so special, nothing about it makes anybody have sense.

— Abi Daré The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)

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You must do good for other peoples, even if you are not well, even if the whole world around you is not well.

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“In our land, a sad wife is better than a happy woman with no husband.”

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I don’t want to write trauma for trauma’s sake. I want to write it in a way that leads to empathy. To action.

Not his-story. My own will be called her-story.

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Write your truth, Ms. Tia say. Your truth.

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