WAITING FOR THE HORSES
There was something magical about watching them emerge from the crowd. The riders always looked larger than life.
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MY FIRST OJUDE OBA
The crowds were overwhelming, but they were also proof of the festival’s importance.
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I DO NOT WANT TO BE A CLEANER FOREVER
For now, I don't have any plan or any hope, apart from this government.
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I HAVE A JOB, AND I CAN’T AFFORD IT
We are not on the payroll, not on any union list. It is like we are living a lie.
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IT FEELS LIKE I’M BUILDING SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE
The cost of coming to work every day is the source of my biggest debt.
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GIVING UP A DECADE FOR A DREAM
Sometimes the money comes late; sometimes it is the correct amount; sometimes it is less than expected.
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ALL OF THIS FOR FIVE THOUSAND NAIRA?
Imagine I have a law degree, yet I’m earning what a street hawker might get in a few days.
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ON PROBATION FOR FIVE YEARS WITHOUT PAY
We are called “temporary” with our names written in pencils, until the temporary becomes the life we know.
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SITTING AT THE SAME DESK AFTER 13 YEARS
Hope! It is what is still keeping me in this work, not because I love the work I do.
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CHURCH WITH NO WORDS: HOW THE DEAF WORSHIP IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
“And on that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book … Isaiah 29:18.”
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