![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I played basketball and trained for the 200-meter relay. I took dual-credit courses at the local community college and drove downtown for SAT prep. I joined the National Honor Society, Peer Assistance Leadership and Service and the French club. Like my older sister, who was then two years into a finance degree and on a gravity-defying trajectory of her own, I had spent most of high school on a mission to make something respectable of myself. My parents, born in agrarian villages in colonised Nigeria, had settled there in the mid-1990s as middle-class academics. My family lived in the suburbs of Houston. By that time, the fall of 2003, I had already plotted the next 10 years of my life - the graduate school, the job, the house, the car.
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