Life Abroad

I’m still single, which is baffling to me because I’m actually a really pretty woman, very nurturing, respectful, and considerate. My family says its because I’m not Nigerian enough…

Somewhere on the other side of Alligator Alley, a Dodge Dealership had Minivans for sale at a “too good to be true” price. There was no time to waste! I …

In a bid to living the American dream, young Nicole left her country Mexico for the United States of America. She left behind her two children. Not long after her …

Every where I go, I hear Congolese, Togolese, Sierra Leonean, Liberians and South Africans and others speak ill of Nigerians. They hate the fact that Nigerians are “too aggressive,” “too …

I couldn’t think of any reason why Her Majesty the Queen would remember me, I made sure I paid my income and council taxes, I hadn’t been in any fight …

“I am a Nigerian, deep in my heart, I am a Nigerian; but how do I find my way back?”

Today it is my time for thinking about my own child, my nieces, nephews and other younger relatives I have acquired by blood ties or through friendship. I wonder what …

“I suddenly realised that the whole bed was covered in blood and water. By the time an ambulance took me and Joseph to hospital, our baby was dead…”

It is Black History Month. I do not in anyway wish to diminish African-American black history, but I believe that somewhere in the whole mess of history, African history has …

Each night as I tuck my youngest two in bed next to their Barbie dolls, and snuggle buddies, in their strawberry shortcake adorned pink room, I’m thinking, God must really …

Ike Anya was in Sheffield to attend the annual autumn conference of the Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and General Practitioners, the umbrella organization for Nigerian doctors in the United …

“We are armed robbers and we have come to collect our Sallah gift. Let’s go to your room…” I was not scared of the armed robbers. But I was angry. …

“We are armed robbers and we have come to collect our Sallah gift. Let’s go to your room…” I was not scared of the armed robbers. But I was angry. …

“You are African? Cool, do you speak Swahili?”  “You are from Nigeria? Waoh. I know this guy from Nigeria too. He just got arrested.”“You are from Africa? So you speak …

If you’ve ever attempted to secure academic transcripts from any Nigerian university, or from other institutions of higher learning in Nigeria, you must know how difficult and frustrating it can …

When it comes to how the younger generation treats some elderly citizens of this so-called God’s country, I must bow my head in shame…