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When a 19-year-old from Nigeria went to study at Drexel University, Philadelphia, she was confronted with an American roommate who asked why she could speak English so well. ‘She was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listen to what she called my “tribal music”, and was consequently very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey. Her default position toward me, as an African, was a kind of patronising, well-meaning pity. My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe.’
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