Day: June 6, 2025

The Firstborn They Forgot Was Human – A True Nigerian Story

I was barely eleven years old when I learned what it meant to be a firstborn in a Nigerian home. My mother, a teacher, had just delivered her fourth child—my youngest brother, Tochukwu—when I overheard my father say to our neighbor, “Chisom will have to grow up fast now. She’s our second mummy.” At eleven. […]