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If you are an African intellectual, and you have not been arrested by power-hungry, drunken soldiers in Africa, the white man does not buy your books. Unless you are Chimamanda. Of course. Who would want to arrest her? Her wahala plenty abeg. So, I got out of the plane, wearing my teeshirt and a big grin hoping to be arrested so that I would return to America and sign a big advance for a book. Yes, I will write a book if the price is right! Money na hand, back na ground! Who nor like better ting?) Well, no one arrested me. I was devastated. I already had the tweet typed. "SMH! I have been arrested! RT and share with oyinbo abeg!" @usmc is the twitter handle of the US marines. They will come and spring me from Kirikiri.
People say they enjoy my stories because they think they are fantastic as in they are fabu or fantafabulous. The notion that I am an African who first saw a lion in…
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