Unlike Lagos and New York City, Entebbe makes no promises to the newcomer.
IS JAZZ REAL? MAYBE NOT, BUT I FELT SOMETHING THAT NIGHT
“Customer, see me now,” she said, turning around for me to see her buttocks and half-revealing breasts.
TRYING TO OWN MY TIME
I think over time, you just see risk-taking as being a bit more fruitful.
WE DON’T HAVE CONVERSATIONS ANYMORE, WE JUST WANT TO FUCK
“Hey handsome, nice to meet you. Are you open to friends with benefits?”
A GOOD WORLD
I joined my partner in Toronto at the beginning of winter, when there weren’t a lot of activities for someone coming from a warm climate.
LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD TO NAVIGATE
The last time I saw my husband was in September 2022 at the airport. A lot of the changes we went through over the past one to two years have been separate.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
When I first got to the UK in 2021, I landed in Chelmsford. I moved to London a year later, after I got my degree.
AN IMMIGRANT DIED BECAUSE OF COLD
Education here is expensive, especially for international students. My friends doing undergraduate programmes at the University of Alberta pay 50,000 CAD every single year.
THOUGHT I WOULD BE DEPORTED
Starting around 2018, my mom desperately wanted me to leave Nigeria. She would go to Poly Road and follow up with agents.
RETHINKING MY FUTURE IN NIGERIA
The first time I considered Japa was in 2018, when I graduated. I was the second person in the history of the Department of History to finish with a first class.