Although I did not emerge victorious in the race for legislator in Nassau County’s 14th District, I did learn some valuable lessons about my country and my own beliefs along the way.
The worship of expertise, detached from any transcendent perspective, has already plagued modern life. Now rationality is becoming just another weapon with which to attack others.
Tola Rotimi Abraham is from Lagos, Nigeria. She writes this, her debut novel, with one foot placed in the intimate and communal confines of Lagos and the other inside her characters’ heads.