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Day 8: A Hard Conversation

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  This afternoon, I have a conversation with the new doctor on the rounds this afternoon – a middle aged man, average height and slightly cross-eyed. He is walking past …

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Day 7: Stories From the Frontline

February 20, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

Alhaji H is back on the radar. This morning, he is playing a vox-pop clip. In it, a woman is saying she is divorced and that she doesn’t care about …

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Day 6: Conversations Around Privilege

February 18, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  Day 6 opens with gratitude by our 50years+ folks for the amazing facilities at the center; and for the extremely professional doctors, nurses and even ward maids who come …

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Day 5: Alhaji H

February 16, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  The morning opens with vibes. A pleasant nurse smiling down at me as I open my eyes. “How do you feel this morning,” she says. I nod and sit …

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Day 4: A Quick Trip To The Edge

February 15, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  Alhaji A (one the co-patients) sits majestically in the plastic chair by his bed, sipping on piping hot tea in a plastic cup. Nurse Coker walks pasts and this …

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Day 3: A Taste of Prison

February 13, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  This morning, I am weak and my bowel rumbles. Twice I have been to the toilet and it is not even midday yet. Still, this stomach howls and it’s …

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Day 2: Wake Up! It’s A Strange World

February 12, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  To be honest, I do not remember much of everything that happened on day 2. Even now that I think back on it all, it felt like a haze. …

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Day 1 – The Ambulance Ride

February 8, 2021 - by admin - 1 Comment

  The ambulance came for me around 1:21pm. Initially I had been told it’d be here for 11/12noon, but heck! This is Nigeria and we understand how this things work. …

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A UNILAG Love

November 5, 2020November 6, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

“When I got into UniLag, I attended an interview to join JCI, that was when I first met the man that would later become my husband. I was in 100 …

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Celebrity Convos – Second Edition

September 12, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

That this edition of #CelebrityConvos is published at such a time as this – when the world is brought to its knees by a tiny, microscopic organism – a virus …

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The Florence Ajimobi Story

April 21, 2020April 24, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  1/5 I was born in, what is today, Delta State on the 5th April 1959 to a Nigerian mother and a Lebanese father of the Hajaig family. My mother …

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COVID19Stories – Padova, Italy

April 7, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  “On the 20th February, the Italian government declared a lock-down of my province – Padova. It was one of the first places where the virus began to spread so, …

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Open Secrets

March 10, 2020March 13, 2020 - by admin - 2 Comments.

1/5   “If two or more people know about something, it is no longer a secret. That is why I need to tell this story. I was conceived while my …

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A Conversation About Ivanovo

March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 - by admin - 1 Comment

Leaving Nigeria I left Nigeria on October 1 2018. In my heart, I was both excited and anxious. I was excited because I was finally leaving Nigeria and I would …

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The Weeldrop Story

February 13, 2020February 17, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

Three months after I was born my mother passed away.  My grandmother took me in after the incident and raised me in my early years at Gege, around Agbeni market …

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The Man Who Typed His Way To The Bar

January 21, 2020January 24, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

1/5 I was born and brought up in Isero compound at Oja’gbo – Ibadan North East Local Government. It is one of the interior parts of Ibadan where you lived …

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F&K Saving: A Story of Grit, Sweat & Reward

December 9, 2019December 12, 2019 - by admin - 1 Comment

F&K Savings is Ibadan’s leading digital savings platform founded by two upstanding gentlemen – Feyi and Folarin. These two young men are dogged, visionary and innovative. Both are graduates of …

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TESTIMONY: A Pair of New Feet For Adenike

November 28, 2019November 29, 2019 - by admin - Leave a Comment

This is the story of Adenike Adebayo, a student of the Polytechnic of Ibadan. In this first part, Nike’s mother narrates the story of how her legs were amputated at …

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HEKIMA – Procrastination

November 25, 2019 - by admin - Leave a Comment

In the month of October 2011, I was given an opportunity and a special preference to be part of a particular forum that I believed would be good for my …

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The Unrelenting Dreamchaser

November 19, 2019November 22, 2019 - by admin - 1 Comment

I am the first child of my parents. My father worked at NichemTex in Ikorodu while my mom had a shop where she sold provisions. I grew up under a …

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