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‘The Impetus of My Life and Work is Love.’ OluTimehin Adegbeye's First Draft

First DraftInterviewsOctober/November 2020
Writer and social justice advocate, OluTimehin Adegbeye, says her biggest motivation is love. Love, she explains, 'is exponentially more demanding and more transformative than what it has been reduced to in the popular imagination. It sits at the centre of what I consider the greatest intellectual and literary enquiries.' Our questions are italicized.  What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? I’ve never thought about this before—at least not in any coherent way. I read
 

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