My name is Alaina and this is
my commonplace book, circa 2007 - present.
I’m writing about Lagos now, but I don’t think of writing an explicitly political tract. Even the short stories of everyday disasters on Twitter are really a way of saying that small stories also have to be told. It’s by telling the story of a single person in the best way possible that you can illuminate an entire society. If you take too general a view, you actually just come up with clichés.