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.
Les enseñemos a las niñas a sentir vergüenza. ‘Cierra las piernas, cúbrete’. Les hacemos sentir como si por haber nacido mujeres ya fueran culpables de algo. Y así, las niñas crecen y se convierten en...
Laura picked up the menu again. In graduate school I knew a woman from Africa who was just like this doctor, I think she was from Uganda. She was wonderful, and she didn’t get along with the African-A...
Later, when she came to know of the letters he wrote to Congress about Darfur, the teenagers he tutored at the high school on Dixwell, the shelter he volunteered at, she thought of him as a person who...
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 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...
It’s a novel, right? What’s it about? Why did people ask What is it about? as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
It was not a physical fatigue—he went to the gym regularly and felt better than he had in years—but a draining lassitude that numbed the margins of his mind. He got up and went out to the verandah; th...
It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, th...
It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope.
Is it a good life, Daddy? Nkiru has taken to asking lately on the phone, with that faint, vaguely troubling American accent. It is not good or bad, I tell her, it is simply mine. And that is what matt...
In every culture in the world, female sexuality is about shame. Even cultures that expect women to be sexy−like many in the West−still do not expect them to be sexual.
I don’t think love has a reason. I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.
His mind had not changed at the same pace as his life, and he felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be.
Here’s a nifty solution: Each couple that marries should take on an entirely new surname, chosen however they want as long as both agree to it, so that a day after the wedding, both husband and wife c...
Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - You are the absolu...
He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the...