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5 min readThe Politics of Belonging: Motherhood, Migration, and Identity.
The Politics of Belonging: Motherhood, Migration, and Identity. 2023 How motherhood and migration reshaped my understanding of race, identity, and activism. Migration and Motherhood 2023 was a year of profound firsts for me. I left Nigeria and travelled abroad for the first time, landing in the United Kingdom — the same year I cast my first vote and became a mother. Among these milestones came an unexpected revelation: for the first time in my life, I realised I was Black. This was a fact I...