Why would you burn your neighbor’s house and refuse to take action against the Imam or the pastor that fails to lead by the example he preaches? How can you inconvenience yourself financially and deprive yourself trying to do the Hajj, come back to the only country you know and do nothing about the oppressor you see everyday riding with convoys and police security?

Home Coming

by Adora Ikwuemesi
by Adora Ikwuemesi

When people tell me they want to move back to Nigeria, I respond with the question, why? Sometimes I get a puzzling reply bordering around the fact that Nigeria is after all home, like it or not!

When Imo and Abia States were mischievously left out of the benefits that naturally should come to them as a result of their oil-producing status, it took me quite some time to convince some prominent Igbo groups and individuals, as well as commentators on national issues, that the omission was worth fighting against…