Life Abroad

Many of us make career choices with the best interest of our children in mind. Some of us pawn our kids off to complete strangers to care for them while …

My older brother, Oyaw, lives in New York. In the summer of 2005 he went home to Naija to get married, dragging me along with him. His American girl friend was …

Are Africans – specifically Nigerians – the only people on this planet equipped with a designer yardstick, which measures success in terms of material possessions, educational background and socio-economic status?

The United States of America is full of Africans who came to join their spouses and then unceremoniously abandoned their marital homes. Nigerians, more than other Africans, are masters of “taking …

I am a serf.I do not have a following when I go to Nigeria. The crowd waiting at Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos does not celebrate my arrival. Neither will …

To live in America is the dream of almost every Nigerian, young and old. But the bubbling and excitement in you when you got your visa and boarded the plane …

Why are millions of Nigerians migrating to more “developed” parts of the world even when it means living as second class citizens or living in the underground world of illegal …

Why do I live in the house of my dreams, with a family of my own? Why is the need to reminisce often strong when I am alone? Why do …

A good many thoroughbred professionals who have carved aniche for themselves in the US have become nostalgic and are actually considering coming back home to Nigeria permanently to carve another …

Doctors are Nigerians In America’s most eligible and sought after species. All the girls want to marry them and all the guys want to be them…

For some of us that didn’t witness the real African beauty in our women long before Fashion Fair and Mac Cosmetics took over, we are comforted by the stories and …

My friend would love to go live in the US too. He has played visa lottery since inception, has attempted serendipity, has made SOS calls, and now all he has …

After nearly 50 years in relative isolation from the family, I am now forced by the death of a second parent to revisit the people defined as my family by …

To get and keep a Nigerian man you need to more than learn how to cook. You have to bite your tongue when he criticizes a meal he does not …

Whether you agree or not, many Nigerians in the Diaspora have been exposed to a much more intelligent political discourse…

For years I prayed that the day would come when I would be considered successful. I envied the rich and famous and viewed them as successful. I held steady to …