And what of the warts?

Are they extensive?

So God is in heaven surrounded by His angels was translated as

In her TED Talk, she was talking about her grandmother, who was a somewhat mystical person in her village. and her grandmother would get rid of people's warts by drawing a circle around them.

All around us, everywhere, there are people like this.

But if the god became unruly and began to ask for human sacrifice, the Igbos would destroy the god.

A Pakistani Muslim teaching Jewish Holocaust history to young Igbo children.

It's important because misreading is really the chance for complication and opportunity.

Each time, my grandmother would utter some words in Arabic, take a red apple and stab it with as many rose thorns as the number of warts she wanted to remove.

I always thought a verruca was a type of wart you got on the bottom of your foot.

Many people visited my grandmother, people with severe acne on their faces or warts on their hands.

There is a word, an Igbo word, that I think about whenever I think about the power structures of the world, and it is nkali.

The first Igbo Bible was translated from English in about the 1800s by Bishop Crowther, who was a Yoruba.

This seemingly innocent joke, when I heard it as a child in Nigeria, was told about Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa, with the Hausa being Harry.

What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music, talented people singing in English and Pidgin, and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo, mixing influences from Jay Z to Fela to Bob Marley to their grandfathers.

And for some reason, in Cameroon, when they tried to translate the Bible into Cameroonian patois, they chose the Igbo version.

When I was growing up in Nigeria and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from there were always rites of passage for young men.