Isatou Gaye

“But the new Nigerian leaders were too optimistic, too ambitious with development projects that would win their people’s credibility, too naïve in accepting exploitative foreign loans, and too interested in aping the British and in taking over the superior attitudes and better hospitals and better salaries long denied Nigerians.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“What I have learned over the years is that you don’t discover yourself by sticking to well-trodden paths. You discover yourself by embarking on your own personal odyssey, which is experienced differently by everyone.”
― Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

“The reality is that friendships in adulthood are endangered. Studies show that after thirty, it’s both more challenging to foster new friendships and harder to renegotiate old ones.3 It can feel like you’re stuck between forging new bonds from scratch or feeling beholden to people and patterns you’ve outgrown.”
― Anna Goldfarb, Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections

“Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun