Patricia Daboh

Patricia Daboh contributes articles to Nigerians In America and Nigerian Muse and can be reached through her email address here.

Fraud Through the Church

For the past two days, I have had pure rage pouring out of me to the point where it was on the borderline of hatred!  I know an Evangelist should not feel this way, but I do.  Only yesterday I broke down crying before God...

My son left for Iraq today…

Can America single-handedly stop terrorism? What are the costs to the wives, children, and parents - and especially to the young lives of husbands, sons, and daughters who sacrificed their life for yet another cause. Perhaps I am just now speaking as a mother who dearly misses her son...

Going Through the Immigration Process to Bring Your Nigerian Husband to America (Part II)

The immigration process is not for the “light of heart”, for it takes endurance, trust, faith in your spouse, and a thick shell to ward off the doubtful darts of others who deem you foolish for waiting for such a long period of time or marrying a foreigner in the first place...

Is Black Really Beautiful?

Nigeria and Africa in all their poverty are really just a heartbeat away from the ancestral and cultural poverty that Black America suffers.  Are we allowing our Black youths to be groomed to believe that “black is not beautiful?” 

Disconnected From the Motherland

When I told African Americans who were my friends and co-workers, that I was engaged to my then fiancé, some of the first things they asked me is “Is he ugly, for you know those Africans are ugly?”

The Immigration Process: Bringing Your Nigerian Husband To America

I want you to understand that if you have not met your Nigerian fiancé in person, DO NOT waste your time and money… you will be denied.

Rejected For Loving a Nigerian Man

In marrying my Nigerian husband, I find that I, an African American woman, have taken on the entire country’s fight as well.  I mean I am called on, through thoughtless remarks or questions, to defend my choice...

Nigeria is Beautiful to me

When I told my relatives about my engagement to a Nigerian man, whom I had never met, who lived over 5,000 miles from me, they started telling me, in detail, many horror stories about woman flying to met men who presented themselves to be one thing and turned out to be another...

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