I Was A Tom Boy - Geneviève Nnaji

Ihunanya Geneviève Nnaji

“I was a tomboy. I had three brothers right behind me. My sisters were too busy with themselves –you know how elder sisters are. I played football on the street,” Genevieve told me. She also used to engage in fistfights with the boys who lived in her compound. “I got into a fight with a neighbor of mine who was a boy and I beat him up… I was six years old. We were mates and he was fat. He definitely asked for it and he got it,” she said

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