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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
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Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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