Every Stone

The story of Abuja is really interesting — until about 1976, Lagos, the port city, was the capital of Nigeria. It was decided that changing the capital would reduce regional and tribal bias, so the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was formed and Abuja was born. Abuja was built up from a small village, and it’s […]

I couldn’t help laughing every time the pilot made an announcement. He provided a detailed route for us — “We’ll be going tru Philadelphia and New York up ta Nova Scotia, all Nordern da whole way” — and told us that, ‘of course,” he’d “prefer that we keep our seatbelts fastened during flight.” When, having […]