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Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our ...more

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I was telling them about back home and how all the boys were chasing me because I was half-caste, and they said I was dissing myself. So now I say bir...more

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She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came with having too much food: a sated belly gave America...more

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The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, tha...more

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Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Rany...more

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Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but th...more