One day I said to them, Where is the God you worship? They said he was like Chukwu, that he was in the sky. I asked then, Who is the person that was killed, the person that hangs on the wood outside t...
Philip May is known in politics as a man who has taken a back seat and allowed his wife, Theresa, to shine. Allowed. Now let us reverse it. Theresa May has allowed her husband to shine. Does it make s...
The most unforgettable dinner parties happened when guests said unexpected, and potentially offensive, things. The
Philadelphia had the musty scent of history. New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage. But Princeton had no smell.
The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those att...
Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it. Still
Como soy mujer, se espera de mí que aspire al matrimonio. Se espera de mí que tome decisiones en la vida sin olvidar nunca que el matrimonio es lo más importante. El matrimonio puede ser bueno, una fu...
They looked at the world with an impractical, luminous earnestness that moved her, but never convinced her.
What if the parents, from the beginning, taught both children to cook Indomie? Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical life skill for a boy to have—I’ve neverthought it made much sense to leave...
Enséñale a que no haga universales sus principios y experiencias. Enséñale que sus principios son solo para ella, no para los demás.
Later Ginika said, You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They’ll believe all kinds of shit about Africa
Everybody will have an opinion about what you should do, but what matters is what you want for yourself.
Dijo que era la exagerada gratitud derivada de la inseguridad del inmigrante.
A young Nigerian woman once told me that she had for years behaved ‘like a boy’ – she liked football and was bored by dresses – until her mother forced her to stop her ‘boyish’ interests. Now she is g...
America’s tribalisms—race, ideology, and region—became clear.
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
I know we could accept the things we can’t be for each other, and even turn it into the poetic tragedy of our lives. Or we could act. I want to act. I want this to happen. Kosi is a good
And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.
And, in the pride in her eyes, he saw a shinier, better version of himself.
Nwunye m, sometimes life begins when marriage ends. You and your university talk. Is this what you tell your students? Mama was smiling. Seriously, yes. But they marry earlier and earlier these days....
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