“Love towards your motherland accepts no foreign borders.”
Africa is my motherland. More specifically, Nigeria is my motherland.
So yes I may be British, I may not have been born in Nigeria and I may have only visited Nigeria once in my life so far; but I will always be Nigerian and African, and proudly so.
14th February, Valentine’s Day. The day of love in which people profess their love, or just another commercialised holiday, depending on how you want to look at it.
This year, I spent Valentine’s Day in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. I thought I’d share a funny story of how I nearly (nearly being a bit of a stretch) found love in Kota Kinabalu.
When I told my friends and family that I was going to Gran Canaria, a lot of their responses was “where is that?”. Gran Canaria is a Spanish Island off the coast of Morocco and is a part of the Canary Islands.
Travelling for me has been an escape. An escape from stress and fulfilling the differing expectations from myself, my family and society. But it’s also more than that. I’m on this journey they call “self-discovery”. Every trip I make, I seem to find another piece of myself. But I’m also at this point of my life where I am questioning whether I should be looking for “me” or rather creating and moulding myself.
Picture beautiful blue skies, a white sandy beach, sparkling blue green seas and a vibrant green forest with monkeys swinging from tree to tree. This is what greeted me when we arrived at Sapi Island in Malaysia. I’m actually jealous of myself right now lol, I wish I was still there rather than here writing this blog post in a very windy and rainy London.
