For Chinonye Chukwu, growing up Nigerian in Fairbanks was a never-ending commute between two different worlds. Born in Rivers State, Nigeria, but raised in the Interior by her petroleum engineer and professor parents, Chukwu spent Christmas breaks in Africa with her family. The rest of the year she was an Alaska girl with a pink [...]
There was nothing about Bukola Sogbuyi’s appearance to betray her health condition. Looking radiant, chubby and peaceful, it was hard to believe that she was a sickle-cell carrier. Unlike the visible signs that usually accompany carriers of the sickle-cell disease such as the yellow colouring of the eyes or fragility, Bukola seems the opposite. Simply [...]
Though born and bred in the Brazilian city of Bahia, Senior Pastor of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Nigeria, Pastor Luciano A. Muyiwa Reis is very much at home in Nigeria. Muyiwa, as he is fondly called in Nigeria only arrived the country a year ago to take charge of [...]
