Tag: Nigeria

  • Also by Mail Edition Assemblage: Begleiterscheinungen emanzipatorischer Theorie und Praxis 2013-02-20 96 pages Paperback, 142×205 mm ISBN 978-3-942885-38-6 Series: Witnessed Edition 2 Olumide Popoola Also by Mail is a modern family comedy-drama that follows the experiences of Nigerian German siblings Funke and Wale who fly to Nigeria to bury their suddenly deceased father. Their upbringing…

  • Nigeria’s dangerous skin whitening obsession   Al Jazeera 2013-04-06 Mohammed Adow Nigeria has the world’s highest percentage of women using skin lightening agents in the quest for “beauty”. Lagos, Nigeria – After carefully washing her face, legs and arms, Taiwo Solomon vigorously rubs cream over her body. She is meticulous and makes sure she covers…

  • Finding a Match, and a Mission: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer The New York Times 2012-05-11 Donald G. McNeil, Jr. A month after his 2009 graduation from Yale Law School, Seun Adebiyi learned he had not one but two lethal blood cancers and began an odyssey to find a bone-marrow donor. Mr. Adebiyi, 28, who came…

  • ‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’

  • Double Consciousness in the Work of Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans Women: A Cultural Review Volume 20, Issue 3 (December 2009) pages 277-286 DOI: 10.1080/09574040903285735 Pilar Cuder-Domnguez, Associate Professor University of Huelva, Spain The first novels published by Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans feature twins of mixed-race parentage—a Nigerian mother and an English father—growing up…

  • Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo’s own childhood and family history.