Author and speechwriter for the Vice President of Nigeria, Ore Ogunbiyi, thinks everyone should read Emmanuel C. Eze’s Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader before leaving university.
Our questions are italicized.
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up?
As a child, I binged on Jacqueline Wilson and graduated to Cathy Cassidy. Cute, girly trash. I don’t think I read much else until I was about 11 when my mum decided I had to read something more ‘serious’ and bo
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