Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Education is a priority! How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?”

“Of course, of course, but my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe,” Master said. “I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.”