Speak No Evil

by Uzodinma Iweala

We live such different lives with such different worries. Who has time to think about sexual orientation when there is no food to eat, no money for school fees, no doctor in sight when you get sick.

But I didn’t choose my life any more than the boys beneath the mango trees chose theirs, any more than my father chose his.

I don’t understand why there are people for whom rules and norms are fully optional, for whom foolishness is celebrated.