Funny Encounter with the Stern Mama Uche

“Eat that ‘Uda’ before I slap you!” Mama Uche shouted at me. I had a mild sore throat before going to school that morning, and when I complained about it to my mother, she made a salt and warm water mixture for me to drink, claiming it would help clear my throat, as she gently
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Milestones: A Different Kind of Pressure

As parents, we hear so much about milestones — the charts, the timelines, the expectations. They come at us from doctors, from schools, from other parents, from the internet. And before we realize it, we’re measuring our children against standards we barely had time to understand.I’ve been there too. This is my experience, and maybe
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In Love with a Church Boy

She fell in love with his voice first. They had never met. He had called her “one day after one of Ekpeme’s boring classes,” Theresa said. She was in no hurry to go back to the hostel room that she shared with about twelve others. In Amina hostel at Ahmadu Bello University, everyone had a
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The Courage that Changed the World

Unveiling the Past: A Prelude to Courage (The Greensboro Four) Walking through the doors of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum on a Saturday afternoon, the first thing that caught my attention was a long poster showing the F.W. Woolworth & Co. Building with a caption that read, “What happened here changed the world.”
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