![]() He read a lot, mostly thrillers and science fiction, pulp paperbacks he bought from secondhand bookshops for a dollar or less. He was living near his parents, in a small city some two hundred and fifty miles southeast of Lagos. ![]() So I got a computer and started writing.”Įghosa Imasuen was twenty-eight. So she told me, Write books! Don’t just sit there dishing out Tylenol. She didn’t care what I did, really, she just wanted me to do more. She showed me a photograph in a magazine of a young woman with beads in her hair, and she said, Look at this small girl, she has written a book of horticulture, about flowers-you could do something like that. She’s saying, You’re stagnating, you read medicine and you haven’t gone further, you could do better! I was happy, I was in this quiet place becoming a provincial doctor, but in Nigeria that is a lack of ambition, so my mom was angry. ![]() ![]() I’m in Warri, in Delta State, I’m working as a doctor, and my mom and I are having a fight. ![]()
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