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FINDING OUR ROOTS

“I can see those are doing better than the last ones,” I said admiringly. “Must be the weather…”

“Yeah, must be.” My aunt Bridget smiled back at me as she tended to her onugbu plants in my cousin’s tiny makeshift garden in the US. Onugbu are bitter greens that are widely eaten as leaf vegetables in Nigeria, and my cousin is one of the

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