"Growing up, I experienced this viscerally because my parents are from Nigeria, I was born and raised in America and my parents tried to hand over that identity card and that didn’t fit me because I was growing up in a context in which their identity didn’t necessarily line up with how I saw myself…"
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On the generational rifts in his family in “TOPE FOLARIN’S SEARCH FOR HIMSELF” in Mel Magazine (2019)
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