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| ced52f9 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recalls that the stories she wrote as a seven year old in Nigeria were based on the kinds of stories she read, featuring characters who were white and blue eyed, they played in the snow, the ate apples. According to Adichie, this wasn't just about experimentation or an active imagination, because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to.. | Darren Chetty |