Every time Saratu Abiola writes, her truth is at stake.

Each time author of ‘A Woman among Women’, Saratu Abiola, writes, her truth is at stake. Hence, she writes, ‘to learn what I know and what I don’t, organizing my thoughts in as intellectually honest a way that I can so that I come away from it with more clarity than when I started.’ Our questions are italicized. What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? I was a voracious reader as a child, especially of fiction, and read everything from Nancy Drew and Ola Rotimi�

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