Exile – Monica’s Story
This is what it feels like when home is no longer a place you can return to. In this conversation, we speak with Monica from Benue who shares what it means to carry the weight of memory, the fear of…
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A Woman With Many Lives
Winifred Ugwueze is the Founder of Tech Sisi, a digital agency that teaches in-demand tech skills as well as a marketing agency that offers marketing services. Three years ago, she could never have imagined getting to this point in her…
Corper Wee!
Tofunmi is a corper currently serving in the Nigeria Youth Service Corps popularly known as NYSC. She currently serves in Oshodi Local Government of Lagos State. The team at SFN reached out to interview her on her experience so far…
My Coastal Dream: Like Venice, Like Ayetoro
Ayetoro is a coastal community in Ilaje, Ondo State Nigeria. Like Ayetoro, Venice, located in Northeastern Italy, is also coastal. In Venice, there are no roads, just canals. Movement happens through canoes or maybe speedboats. Beyond its urbanization, Venice is…
Oluyemi Orija: Fighting for those who have no one
A murder happened in my village, and it led to a mass arrest. In a village like mine, you were either related to some or most of the people: uncles, neighbours, cousins, your friend’s father, and all. Everyone who had…
Elizabeth Awo-Ejeh: Cancer, You Messed With the Wrong Girl
I was born in Zamfara, a state in Northern Nigeria, in a small Christian community where survival meant resilience. Growing up here taught me that if I wanted something, I had to fight for it. But I never imagined that…
Praise Akobo: Awakening Possibilities in Disability
The first time I began to understand what was going on was when I fell on the Assembly ground in Secondary School. I had had a series of recurring seizures. On getting to the hospital, the school put a call…
The work of hope – Grace Okeke Eche-Victor
I was going into the prison yard when my dad called me on the phone. Instinctively I picked up the call and responded “Daddy, I’m in prison. I’ll call you back”. I didn’t think it through before I said that.…
We are not Down – Tola Makinde
When my daughter was born, we didn’t have a normal naming ceremony. You know the kind with happy faces and congratulatory stares. There were sad faces and gloom in the air. We all knew there was a problem right after…
Seyi Bolaji: Educate a child – Overcoming battles & championing quality education
My parents kept trying to have a boy but ended up with seven girls. I am the last of the pack of seven (now six). I am fond of saying I come from a “girl’s hostel”. Back then, people would…