Each time author of ‘A Woman among Women’, Saratu Abiola, writes, her truth is at stake. Hence, she writes, ‘to learn what I know and what I don’t, organizing my thoughts in as intellectually honest a way that I can so that I come away from it with more clarity than when I started.’
Our questions are italicized.
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up?
I was a voracious reader as a child, especially of fiction, and read everything from Nancy Drew and Ola Rotimi
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