Adaure Achumba

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Journalist
Location Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Introduction TALES AND COMMENTARY FROM A NIGERIAN-AMERICAN JOURNALIST ESCAPING THE RECESSION AND GLOBAL CREDIT CRUNCH IN THE CHAOS OF LAGOS AND DISCOVERING AFRICA IN THE PROCESS. (Please note that certain content are highly embellished, reflect only the inner workings of my head and do not represent the views of any organization, past or present, to which I am affiliated. Dig?)
Interests News, Politics, Arts, Literature, African film and music, Travel, Fashion, Shopping, Make-Up, Taking pitcures and Bollywood
Favorite Movies Eve's Bayou, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai(Indian), Romeo and Juliet, Sound of Music, Diary of Mad Black Woman, Color Purple, My Love(Nigerian), anything with Lindsey Lohan in it.
Favorite Music Neo-Soul, Makossa, Afro-Beat, RnB, Kwaito
Favorite Books Half of a Yellow Sun & Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie, Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Gotham Diaries by Tonya Lewis Lee and Crystal Anthony, Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

You get to ride the big roller coaster three times in a row. What will keep your dad from taking a bite out of your candy apple?

My dad's African, he'll stone you with the candy apple and make you cry and throw up more for wasting his money on such silliness.