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I must have listened to at least 10 covers of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' - Jeff Buckley's cover is usually my go-to song.

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There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

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I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.

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I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

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When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while, as tends to happen when one is once or twice removed from grief, I stopped thinking about them all the time.

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I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?

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To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

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Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.

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Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

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'Stay with Me' started out being very political, largely because I'm a little obsessed with politics.

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Writer

Born: January 29th, 1988

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