Why We Leave
EN DE EN I remember the last time I saw her before she left. We had been friends since secondary school. We were at a gathering at someone’s house, and she was there but you… Read More »Why We Leave
“Africans Had No History”
I was on TikTok last week when a video caught my attention, a man talking with the kind of confidence that comes from never having had to question what you were taught, explaining that Africans… Read More »“Africans Had No History”
No One Is Coming to Save Us
I woke up this morning doing what I probably shouldn’t do first thing. Reading Nigerian news. Same headlines, different day. Election results that change nothing. Court rulings that surprise nobody. Budgets that don’t add up.… Read More »No One Is Coming to Save Us
The Russian, The Spy Glasses, and What They Exposed About Us
The videos showed up on my timeline a few days ago, and I couldn’t look away. A white man with a Russian accent and broken English, walking up to African women in Ghana and Kenya,… Read More »The Russian, The Spy Glasses, and What They Exposed About Us
Remigration Graffiti Came to My Neighbourhood
The first time I saw it, I was walking to the train station. Red letters on a wall, neat and precise, like someone had used a stencil. REMIGRATION. I stood there staring at it. Why… Read More »Remigration Graffiti Came to My Neighbourhood
Six Months with Women I Never Expected
Someone once said to me, “Oh, you’re that rich, huh?” and I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me. It happened not long after I moved to Germany. I was out with colleagues,… Read More »Six Months with Women I Never Expected
Start With a Friend
“Mum, I needed that.” My youngest said this to me in the car, and I wasn’t expecting it. I’d just picked her and her sister up from a casual meetup with Start With a Friend… Read More »Start With a Friend
The Second Week
Amina tells me about the second week like she’s back in that moment when everything changed. “The second week actually was when I discovered that I am alone in a country. I don’t know no… Read More »The Second Week
She Had No Way Back. So She Built Something Forward
Before Suaad made phone calls in Germany, she’d open Google Translate and literally write down the entire conversation like a script: what she needed to say, what they might ask, how she’d respond. That’s what… Read More »She Had No Way Back. So She Built Something Forward
The Red Pill
My daughter asked me today if I regret leaving Nigeria. Not in those exact words. She didn’t come out and ask directly. Instead, she started talking about a friend who just moved to the UK,… Read More »The Red Pill
