A Bit of Difference
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Sefi Atta. A Bit of Difference
Copyright
Dedication
Reorientation
Actually
Foreign Capitals
The Business of Humanitarianism
Sidestep
For Good
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
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For my father Abdul-Aziz Atta,
forty years in memoriam
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The Davises restricted Seyi’s funeral to family members. No one else was allowed to attend – not his godparents, not their friends, not even his friends from Saint Greg’s. Lanre was bedridden. He had a concussion and black eyes. Her parents went several times to pay their condolences at the Davises’ house, but their steward would open their door dressed in a white uniform and say, ‘Master and Madam are resting.’
Seyi’s funeral caused a scandal in Lagos that summer. After the obituaries and tears, people began to abuse his father in private. They said he was too English. He didn’t know how to mourn properly. Her father saw him on the golf course practising his swing. Her mother bumped into Mrs Davis at Moloney Supermarket and was finally able to speak to her.
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