When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.