Ejiofor said this in Lagos at the premiere of a movie “Half of a Yellow Sun’’ based on a novel written by a Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie.
He said that there was a wrong impression that he claimed not to be a Nigerian.
“During the period of publicising
“Twelve Years a Slave”, I was asked where I was originally from. I suppose I
was trying to give an honest answer about where I was born, and so, I said
London, which is where I was born.
“And to me, it was a surprising
reaction that people then concluded that I didn’t identify as Nigerian.
