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This particular person is irrelevant, but as a fellow Nigerian, I know many of you are thinking the same thing, only with the sense not to come into my mentions with it. So let’s go.

Wait, I have to stop laughing first.

Let me tell you a story. Some platform once called CNA my mentor, which she really wasn't. From her workshop, Binya was the one who read my manuscript, who sat with me for hours, who called and gave me career advice, who introduced me to Wylie, and that was how my career began.

He turned out to be harmful in his own directions, so I severed ties with him long before he passed, but I still pay forward what he did for me. Anyway, they called her my mentor and I basically shrugged, but a friend of mine was like ah, couldn't be me allowing that narrative.

Her view was that she wouldn't want ppl to think that CNA had 'made' her when it wasn't the case. I was like, none of us get here alone, first of all. But more importantly, my work speaks for itself. There was no way anyone was going to read FW and think someone else made me.