What summer in London taught me about loss
As a child newly arrived in the capital from Nigeria, the season seemed expansive and intoxicating. Now I realise that English summer is a false dream.
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Tomiwa Owolade
Tomiwa Owolade is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of the forthcoming This is Not America.
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