Why Madonna’s Billboard “Woman of the Year” Acceptance Speech Means So Much
Now more than ever
5 min readDec 11, 2016
I remember the first time I fell for Madonna. It was the mid-eighties and I had just moved from Kansas City, MO to Lagos, Nigeria. That’s quite a leap by any standard, but my parents were convinced that growing up in the country of my heritage would make a more rounded individual.