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That’s me, Mum! The Nigerian author who wrote a book about her children … and joined a publishing revolution
When Tonye Faloughi-Ekezie decided to write her first book it was for her own children and she printed just two copies. She had been trying to explain to her son why people came to the house to play with his sister, Simone, but not him. “When my son, Ugo, …