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“How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
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