“Don’t eat anything after midnight and make sure you have your bath before midnight.” The nurses said to me as they were preparing me menta

There was this guy my aunt tried hooking me up with a year prior to all of this happening, but I was not interested in a romantic relationsh

I felt like a failure heading back to Lagos. I mean I had spent 11 years in America, and it was not like I was returning with millions of do

I tried so hard to hide my sobs; I mean I did not even have the hands to clean the tears that found a way to make an escape. The lady office

I told a few of my friends that I was coming back and that they shouldn’t let the others know because I wanted to surprise them. Meanwhile I

I was overjoyed at the fact that I was not denied a visa, due to the circumstances that I had overstayed my welcome after college; God was s

There have been three defining moments in my life so far; the loss of my mother, the loss of a relationship and the loss of my home. This is

My faith is something that has always given me hope in difficult situations. This is not faith, the way the world likes to throw the term ar

I picked up the phone one day, while I was at my friend’s apartment, and it happened to be my dad on the other end of the call. “Mommy is co

“Okay madam, your results are in,” the doctor said to my mother after a series of tests. “We are sorry you have stage 4 breast cancer.” The