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Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered.https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/90601350-a-spell-of-good-things
— Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
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About Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (born January 29, 1988) is a Nigerian writerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayobami_Adebayo#cite_note-2.Her 2017 debut novel, Stay With Me, won the 9mobile Prize for Literature and the Prix Les Afriques.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayobami_Adebayo#cite_note-3 She was awarded The Future Awards Africa Prize for Arts and Culture in 2017.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayobami_Adebayo#cite_note-:1-4
About Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (born January 29, 1988) is a Nigerian writerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayobami_Adebayo#cite_note-2.Her 2017 debut novel, Stay With Me, won the 9mobile Prize for Literature and the Prix Les Afriques.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayobami_Adebayo#cite_note-3 She was awarded The Future Awards Africa Prize for Arts and Culture in 2017.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayobami_Adebayo#cite_note-:1-4
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