I lived in Nigeria when I was young (three to six years of age), but I didn’t have an interest in the topic of house help back then, and I don’t remember anyone around our house who wasn’t family. My grandmother does not have house help. She has tenants and during our last visit she [...]
I’m attending my first Nigerian wedding in Canada this weekend. Two years ago I attended my cousin’s wedding in Nigeria, which was the first bride-and-groom-are-Nigerian wedding that I had attended. Even among Nigerians in the same city as I am, it’s a bit odd that I haven’t attended many Nigerian weddings but my excuse is [...]
Shortly after immigrating to Canada, my parents became friends with a Yoruba couple who were a few years younger than them. They had no children when we first met them but within a few years, they had a couple of boys. Then we moved across the country, or maybe they moved first. Anyway, we ended [...]
As you know I’m Nigerian by parentage: both my parents are Yoruba. I even lived in Nigeria for three years (between the ages of three and six), but I have lived in Canada for the past 24 years. And in these 24 years (a scary number that makes me feel quite old), I have visited [...]
My poor neglected blog! Not only have I not been updating as regularly, I’ve also not been responding to comments or keeping up with all blogs I read. I have two scapegoats: the upcoming Keresimesi (Christmas) season and the snow! We had a huge snowstorm last night…and the snow continues to fall nearly 24 hours [...]
I have no recollection of what Christmas is like in Nigeria. While we were in Nigeria recently, I went to a bank in Lagos and it was decorated for Christmas, with a tree and everything. Living in Nigeria between the ages of nearly three years old to age six, I can’t remember if we set [...]
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