- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother has a lot of sisters. They had very, very interesting conversations. Because I was a quiet child, I would sit in the room and listen to these stories. I think I developed a curiosity about the life of other people from that, and an interest in looking at what was lying beneath the layer of what people present in public.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while, as tends to happen when one is once or twice removed from grief, I stopped thinking about them all the time.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Stay with Me' started out being very political, largely because I'm a little obsessed with politics.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don't agree; I'm wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't suffer from SCD myself, but I do carry the gene. This means that if I married another person who carried the gene, there would be a danger our children would suffer from the disease.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2010, I was working in a bank in Lagos. It was a crazy job with long working hours. I had to leave for the office by 5:30 A.M., and sometimes I wouldn't be back until midnight.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020