On the familiar black-box stage in front of a red velvet curtain, Stephen Ozoigbo begins his TEDx Talk with a story about his Nigerian roots, and ends with this climax: He had left Nigeria in troubled times, moving to the U.S. But a few years ago, Ozoigbo returned. He’s now a “re-pat,” his faith in […]
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The Nigerian-American Writer Who Takes on Taboos
When Chinelo Okparanta speaks, she looks straight at you and fixes you with big, mesmerizing brown eyes. The Nigerian-American is soft-spoken and measured until you get to something that excites her, such as the news of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize win, and then her words fly and her hands begin to dance. “Okparanta has a […]