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Jola Naibi

Jola Naibi was raised in Lagos, Nigeria, went to school in the U.K., has lived in Switzerland, and now lives in the U.S. Reading and writing fuel her energy, and her first book, Terra Cotta Beauty, which was published in 2014, is a collection of short stories set in Lagos. She writes as she remembers.

ESSAYS/On Blackness and other wonders

The Ointment That Makes You Glow: A Reflection on Race, Immigration, Religion & Jollof Rice

by Jola Naibi

It is 2014. You are a Nigerian living in the United States. You are the parent of a U.S.-born child. The immigration…

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