“There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of po...” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote

“There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.”

“I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.”

“I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.”

“The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.”

“So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.”