Opinion: Coming to terms with my blackness

by Afam Ade-Odiachi They toyed with the word nigger around me to see how I would take it. To see whether or not I’d get mad and raise hell. Like Ifemelu, the protagonist of Chimamanda Adichie’s latest novel, Americanah, I wasn’t born black. I wasn’t black till I was 17. Before I was 17, Nigeria was... Read More