Nigeria

Cultural Influences

  • Two Parent Home

    Two Parent Home
    My parents have been married for 35 years and the older I get the more I realize how being a product of a two parent home has shaped my value of family and my stigma on divorce.
  • DC Native

    DC Native
    I was born in Washington, DC. So I bleed burgandy and gold!!
  • The Sweetest Name I know

    The Sweetest Name I know
    Jesus! The center of my life.
  • I have all brothers

    I have all brothers
    Being the only girl amoung three brothers had its perks. I never shared a bedroom and I always had new clothes---no hand-me-downs. Being an only girl had its cons as well. I was always the referee in fights.
  • Catholic School Girl

    Catholic School Girl
    I attended catholic school majority of my life. So whatever my parents couldnt scare me into believing the nuns definately did.
  • College Graduate

    College Graduate
    I graduated from a Bowie State University in the Washington, DC subhurb on Bowie, MD. I loved my expereince there and I am still in contact with most of my professors today
  • Nigerian roots

    Nigerian roots
    I am a hardcore NIgerian American. I visited the country evey two years since 1991, I speak the lanuguage, and I actually got married there in 2010.
  • Married

    Married
    I got married in 2010. It has calmed me down from the rowdy tom-boy my brothers created to the gentle wife my husban loves
  • I am a mommy

    I am a mommy
    I became a mother in 2011 and again n 2013. God clearly believes that I am good at this mom thing becasue he is giving us twins due in January 2016
  • New to Texas

    New to Texas
    I moved to Texas in 2012. Although I do not consider myself a Texan, I do have some Texan-like ways. #SweetTea