"I never read Things Born Apart by Chinua Achebe until I was a fully grown adult," he says. "My text will not make it onto the curriculum because of racism and post-colonial ideas that took people like you and me ... dehumanized for a number of centuries" 'We live in a society that is not equitable, so you can't just say that there are great writers that end up on the curriculum,' writes Ogunlesi.

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