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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
War in Africa is hardly a new phenomenon, nor are voices telling its stories of terror and triumph. Yet some of the continent's most devastating conflicts - and the literature born from the experiences of their survivors - have often gone unnoticed in the West.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nigeria is a difficult place. It is not a country for the faint of heart. On a good day, when our larger cities such as Abuja, Lagos, and Kano are filled with the teeming masses going in so many different directions, flogged by the heat and sun, bumping down uneven roads all in the name of 'the hustle,' it can appear chaotic.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I want to be a writer.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.
- Gatherings
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers and our various forms of law enforcement deployed to eradicate the 'indiscipline' of poverty.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington, D.C., is not a subtle city. Unlike the capitals of other once-great powers which, many hundreds of years old, present a more seamless meshing of monumental memory and daily life, D.C. is constructed to shout, 'Here I am! I am powerful!' to the world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the process of creating a story - but you can really learn through exposure to different writing, to different art forms, to different modes of storytelling, and with mentors who are able to get you to step outside your comfort zone.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.
- Denial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The denial with which many African leaders and communities greeted the appearance of HIV and AIDS across the continent in the 1990s is now considered a tragic mistake rather than a purposeful pushback against lingering colonial prejudice.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not living in the same world we were immediately after the Cold War, when there seemed to be a greater belief in the universality of human rights and there was enough prosperity to make us question why we had not committed more resources to upholding the values we claimed to hold most dear.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll confess that, from an early age, I was a huge fan of President Reagan because my parents bought me an enormous stuffed monkey that they named President Reagan - yes, I get it now.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because - Ross Perot.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people in New York would speak about some of the issues people were facing. At the time, 2006-ish, there were a number of big media campaigns to raise awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sensationalism only works for so long. Think of something like the Kony 2012 campaign. Its sensationalized, viral language got people all hot and bothered, but at the end of the day, there was so much it got wrong about the situation, and that did more damage to their cause than what they got right.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's only through story, reading books by Elie Wiesel or Primo Levi, that you really begin to understand the trauma and how horrible it actually was.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.
- Decidedly
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing since I was really young.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Americans, I think we're a very entitled bunch.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020