![]() ![]() In Lagos, it's natural to have more than one job. By this time, I was in boarding school in England and he had returned to Lagos to become a full-time "hustler," the name tag given to eager young entrepreneurs in Lagos. We met properly when I was a young adult and he was taking his first steps into a career in private equity. I hadn't lived long enough for us to have much in common. I was potty-trained but still learning how to read. He was 15 when he left Nigeria for boarding school in the U.K., which would have made me around 5. He didn't have many friends and he didn't have a date for prom. "Leave my room" is a phrase he uttered several times to me. Chinaza is ten years older and so in my earliest memories of him, he was already a teenager. If I stand out, it's for something other than my skin color." The award-winning novelist Chibundu Onuzo has lately been thinking about her life in London and her visits to Nigeria, where she was born: "What do I love most about my trips to Lagos? I lose my self-consciousness there. ![]()
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