In 2019, Chimamanda Adichie gave the inaugural Gabriel García Márquez lecture and spoke about truth and storytelling. “To start a story, a true story, thinking of balance is already to place an obstacle in the path of that story,” she said. “Because what one must focus on is not balance, but truth.” Today, skin colour, race and ethnicity are more than ever topics of conversation. The Black Lives Matter Movement is at its peak, gaining media coverage, Black Lives Matter being a popular hashtag. Before we enter into a historical fiction account of Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, a small inside of what goes into the head of its writer as she talks about love, race and hair.  Please do pay attention to the interviewer, which for the sake of arguments I have to point out is a White, British Man.