[Yoruba]. That's what I really am. I have nothing in common with the people from the north of the country, the Boko Haram where the Islamism is, those were our ethnic enemies and yet you end up being lumped in with those people." - Meaning and context.">
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Interview with Katy Balls and Michael Gove, "'I will die protecting this country'’: Kemi Badenoch on where she plans to take the Tories?", The Spectator ([12] December 2024]
• The parenthetical reference to Badenoch's Yoruba background is in the original source.
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I find it interesting that everybody defines me as being Nigerian. I identify less with the country than with the specific ethnicity [Yoruba]. That's what I really am. I have nothing in common with the people from the north of the country, the Boko Haram where the Islamism is, those were our ethnic enemies and yet you end up being lumped in with those people.

— Kemi Badenoch

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I find it interesting that everybody defines me as being Nigerian. I identify less with the country than with the specific ethnicity [Yoruba]. That's what I really am. I have nothing in common with the people from the north of the country, the Boko Haram where the Islamism is, those were our ethnic enemies and yet you end up being lumped in with those people." in the context of "Interview with Katy Balls and Michael Gove, "'I will die protecting this country'’: Kemi Badenoch on where she plans to take the Tories?", The Spectator ([12] December 2024]
• The parenthetical reference to Badenoch's Yoruba background is in the original source." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Kemi Badenoch

About Kemi Badenoch

Olukemi Olufunto "Kemi" Badenoch (/ˈbeɪdnɒk/ BAYD-nok; née Adegoke, 2 January 1980) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, in 2017 she was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden in Essex, having previously served as a Member of the London Assembly. Badenoch supported Brexit in the 2016 European Union membership referendum. After a series of junior ministerial positions under Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2022, she served as Secretary of State for Business and Trade from 2023 and President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities from 2022, until the 2024 general election. Following Labour's return to government after the election, Badenoch was a candidate to become leader of the Conservatives.

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