But of course it makes sense because we are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new, because our best is still ahead, while in the West their best is already pa...
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whe...
The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people....
They will always be doomed to supermarkets like this.
Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends
She had a formidable air; a person who went about setting everyone and everything right in the world.
People will selectively use tradition to justify anything.
Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and migh...
Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don’t think like that. I don’t even think about gender. Maybe not. And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively th...
Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the things he was seeing but of the photos he would take of them and of the pe...
Nossa premissa feminista é: eu tenho valor. Eu tenho igualmente valor. Não se. Não enquanto. Eu tenho igualmente valor. E ponto final.
Ikenna, I have come to realize, is a man who carries with him the weight of what could have been.
How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?
Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
She thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.
Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has s...
Pillow on
Like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
Layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.
Her skin felt as though it was her right size.