Now that she was asked to speak at roundtables and panels, on public radio and community radio, always identified simply as The Blogger, she felt subsumed by her blog and had become her blog. There we...
Nigerian women came to America and became wild, Igbo Massachusetts Accountant wrote in one post; it was an unpleasant truth but one that had to be said. What else accounted for the high divorce rates...
Never, ever link Chizalum’s appearance with morality. Never tell her that a short skirt is immoral. Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality. If you clash...
My name is not Sah. Call me Odenigbo.''Yes, sah.''Odenigbo will always be my name. Sir is arbitrary. You could be the sir tomorrow.
Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word racist. Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute.
Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair.
Mas o pior é que, quando os pressionamos a agir como durões, nós os deixamos com o ego muito frágil. Quanto mais duro um homem acha que deve ser, mais fraco será seu ego. E criamos as meninas de uma m...
Mariama finished her customer’s hair, sprayed it with sheen, and, after the customer left, she said, I’m going to get Chinese. Aisha and Halima told her what they wanted—General Tso’s Chicken Very Spi...
Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.
Lo peor que le hacemos a los niños –a base de hacerles sentir que tienen que ser duros- es dejarlos con unos egos muy frágiles. Cuanto más fuerte se siente obligado a ser un hombre, más debilitado que...
Let’s have a child, he said again. A little girl just like you, and we will call her Obianuju because she will complete us.
Lagos is a metropolis of almost twenty million people, with more energy than London, more entrepreneurial spirit than New York, and so people come up with all sorts of ways to make a living.
Lagos has never been, will never be, and has never aspired to be like New York, or anywhere else for that matter. Lagos has always been undisputably itself, but you would never know this at the meetin...
La triste verdad es que nuestro mundo está repleto de hombres y mujeres a quienes no les gustan las mujeres poderosas. Nos han condicionado tanto con que el poder es masculino que una mujer poderosa n...
La rabia tiene una larga historia de propiciar cambios positivos. Y además de rabia, también tengo esperanza, porque creo firmemente en la capacidad de los seres humanos para reformularse a sí mismos...
La definición que doy yo es que feminista es todo aquel hombre o mujer que dice: Sí, hay un problema con la situación de género hoy en día y tenemos que solucionarlo, tenemos que mejorar las cosas.Y t...
La cultura no hace a la gente. La gente hace la cultura. Si es verdad que no forma parte de nuestra cultura el hecho de que las mujeres sean seres humanos de pleno derecho, entonces podemos y debemos...
L'unica ragione per cui dici che la razza non è un problema è perché vorresti che non lo fosse. Tutti lo vorremmo, ma è falso. Vengo da un paese in cui la razza non è un problema ; non mi sono mai pen...
Just in case this is the last time we hold hands, let’s really hold hands. Because a motorcycle or a car can kill us now, or I might see the real man of my dreams down the street and leave you or you...
I’m Vincent, Obinze said, when they met in the back room. I’m Dee. A pause. No, you’re not English. You can pronounce it. My real name is Duerdinhito, but the English, they cannot pronounce, so they c...