Lorraine

“You liked me so much I had no choice but to start liking myself, to start acting respectable, like someone who had something special waiting for them back home.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“The trauma she had endured often manifested itself as quiet tears once she was locked in her room, staring at her graveyard of photos.”
― Lola Akinmade Åkerström, In Every Mirror She's Black

“He was amazingly different from Lukumon—savvier, kinkier, unselfish.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“Lukumon, please tell your family why you made me sleep with another man for money, but treated me like a leper when I returned. Explain why you refused to take the job the man offered you, but you insisted that I took the money, rent this house, and buy you that stupid watch. Tell them why you have refused to touch me but you’re sleeping with every girl in the neighbourhood. Why did you say yesterday that you don’t think Kitan is your child?”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad