"I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about la..." — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.

I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.