Word: nigerians
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...struggled against, and whose resurrection is to be sought with great fervor. One can assume that the presence of this immortal French culture means that there also still exist strong Italian, Spanish, Romanian and English cultures. So why do the media refer to African culture but hardly ever to Nigerian culture, distinct from Kenyan or Algerian culture, for instance? Perhaps it's easier to focus on the lowest common denominator of the African experience than on the unique cultural signifiers that every African country possesses as much as does the land of Proust, Monet, Piaf and Truffaut. Tolu Ogunlesi, ABEOKUTA...
...slim volume of essays is the continued unmasking of artifice and fabrication - not in a character or a society, but this time in writing. "There is a specificity to writing," Naipaul believes. "Certain settings, certain cultures, have to be written about in a certain way ... You cannot write about Nigerian tribal life as you would write about the English Midlands...
...situation is little better elsewhere. Nigerian breast-cancer survivor Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu says mothers in her country are reluctant to reveal that they have breast cancer, fearful that if they do, no one will want to marry their daughters. "Some women would rather go to church to pray for the lump to disappear," she says. Mukerjee, the breast-cancer survivor from Kolkata, tells the story of a patient whose very presence halted a family marital procession. "When the crowd saw her, they wouldn't go further," she says...
...sports. "The knowledge seeped in that we weren't very good," says Bhimani. The militant sense of east-west ethnic pride faded with the partition generation and today support for the two clubs has to do less with regional identity and more with plain club loyalty. Imported Brazilian and Nigerian players now star for both sides and routinely swap teams. The bulk of the upper and middle classes who once passionately cared about Kolkata football sit at home with Arsenal, Manchester United or Liverpool on their minds...
...triptych that makes up Foreigners: Three English Lives, is the story of Samuel Johnson's Jamaican servant, Francis Barber, who ended up in penury, though Phillips' narrator remembers him as "at one time, probably the foremost negro in England." Then there's the story of David Oluwale, a Nigerian who stowed away as a teenager to come to England in 1949, dreaming of becoming an engineer, was greeted with 28 days' incarceration and was later committed to an insane asylum for eight years. All these men were seen as foreigners, though their tragedies seem purely British...