When Fatima Muhammad was told to drown her infant son or abandon him in the forest to die, she brushed off the ludicrous suggestions fuelled by superstition. But when people …
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Smoke, soot and toxic fumes: Nigerian families living in shadow of burning oil well six years after blowout
Perched on a narrow hospital cot across from her son, Bodunwa Orugbemi can hear the distant Atlantic Ocean and smell the stench of crude oil on the air drifting in …
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‘I was devastated’: the Nigerian with albinism deported under Trump’s asylum crackdown
Growing up and living with albinism in rural Nigeria was tough for Aisha*. She and her two siblings with the condition were shrouded in stigma and lived in constant fear …
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‘Now people stop to ask their names and even stroke them’: Nigerians embrace dogs as pets
Every weekend in Lagos, 36-year-old Izien Aigbodion walks down his street with his three dogs – a poodle and two chow chows. Neighbours and passersby, more used to seeing dogs …



