My Nigerian publisher and I have just started a non-profit called Farafina Trust, and we have big dreams of building libraries and refurbishing libraries that already exist and providing books for state schools that don't have anything in their libraries, and also of organizing lots and lots of workshops, in reading and writing, for all the people who are eager to tell our many stories. Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.
Tenemos grandes sueños de construir bibliotecas reformar las bibliotecas existentes, y proveer de libros a las escuelas estatales que tiene sus bibliotecas vacías, y de organizar muchos talleres de lectura y escritura, para todos los que quieran contar nuestras muchas historias. Las historias importan. Muchas historias importan. Las historias se han usado para despojar y calumniar, pero las historias también pueden dar poder y humanizar.