Ayobami Adebayo
1) Stay with me
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'There are things even love can't do ...If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love ...' Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything - arduous pilgrimages, medical consultations, appeals to...
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Yejide espera un milagro, un hijo. Es lo único que quiere su marido, lo único que quiere su suegra, y ella lo ha probado todo: duros peregrinajes, consultas médicas, plegarias a Dios. Pero cuando sus familiares se empeñan en buscar una nueva esposa, cruzan el límite de lo que Yejide es capaz de soportar. Y se verá abocada a los celos, la traición y la desesperación.
Con el telón de fondo de las revueltas sociales y políticas de los años...
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To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view, and in her essay, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ recalls memories of her time in the National Youth Service and her growing understanding of her Nigerian...
