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Kéchi Nne Nomu

Kéchi Nne Nomu has worked as a mural painter, a civil engineer, and an editor. She teaches at the University of Virginia. You can follow her on Twitter: @kemnomu.

— From April 2023
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Dissent

The protesters were quite something to watch. On Zoom calls I would describe them to a friend in Brooklyn, who kept calling this the Summer of Discontent. What is happening to us does not have a name yet, I wanted to say. But it did not matter. The protesters were beautiful and bold, like revolutionaries.

April 2023
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