- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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