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Andi Osho

I was a bona fide geek at school, though I wouldn’t have thought that at the time. I didn’t feel like I fitted into the normal run of how everybody else was, so I found my tribe in the school choir. By the time I got to 16 I just couldn’t wait to leave school. I wanted to get to college, because I was just done with it, I just completely had enough.

Age 16 was so different for her because she’d grown up in quite a strict environment [in Nigeria]. Her parents died when she was young, so she lived with an aunt and uncle who’d kind of fostered her long-term. They weren’t the greatest guardians, so I think that different experience for her made it difficult to deal with a 16-year-old who had been brought up

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