![]() With such admirable vulnerability, she writes about the confusion and embarrassment she experienced due to her diagnosis and her family processing her mental illness diagnoses. From her early childhood through adulthood, Bassey lived with havocs of emotional turmoil, cycling between a high level of euphoria and a lower level of deep depression, which are the symptoms of her bipolar disorder. The book was beautifully written and creatively assembled, and one would not have thought it was collections of essays accumulated into a book.īassey was born in Nigeria to Nigerian parents from Cross River State, and at the age of four, she relocated with her mother to join her father in Oklahoma. In the book, she explores her childhood experience in Nigeria, relocating to the US with her mother to join her father, her understanding of racial identity, to the reality of living with mental illness. With her unique storytelling talent, Bassey broke down the misrepresentation of mental illness and shared a beautiful story of a courageous woman. The story was remarkably raw and honest as her memory drifted between the truth and twisted memory. ![]() I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying is a New York Times bestseller where Bassey transcribed her life story as a child growing up in Nigeria and America. Bassey was invited to the show to talk about her recently published book. ![]() “Truth and morning became light with time” African proverbĭuring the pandemic lockdown, I listened to one of my subscribed podcasts, Come Through with Rebecca Carrol, and Bassey Ikpi was a guest in one of her episodes. ![]()
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