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Chimamanda Adichie: Why can't he just be like everyone else?

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Genre : Divers
Pays principal concerné : Rubrique : Littérature / édition
Mois de Sortie : 2014
Publié le : 24/02/2014
Source : The Scoop
http://www.thescoopng.com/chimamanda-adichie-why-cant-he-just-be-like-everyone-else/

I will call him Sochukwuma. A thin, smiling boy who liked to play with us girls at the university primary school in Nsukka. We were young. We knew he was different, we said, ‘he's not like the other boys.' But his was a benign and unquestioned difference; it was simply what it was. We did not have a name for him. We did not know the word ‘gay.' He was Sochukwuma and he was friendly and he played oga so well that his side always won (...)

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Published by The Scoop, February 18th, 2014.

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