‘Editing Feels Like Taking Vitamins.’ Ore Ogunbiyi’s First Draft

Author and speechwriter for the Vice President of Nigeria, Ore Ogunbiyi, thinks everyone should read Emmanuel C. Eze’s Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader before leaving university. Our questions are italicized. What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? As a child, I binged on Jacqueline Wilson and graduated to Cathy Cassidy. Cute, girly trash. I don’t think I read much else until I was about 11 when my mum decided I had to read something more ‘serious’ and bo

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