S4E9 - Immigrant Stories

The one about the realities of moving away from home.

Shoutout to @haryoola93 for coming through on this episode!

Ayotunde is a Nigerian who’s been living in Germany for 4+ years now.

To kick things off, it was only right to talk about our different reasons and motivations for leaving Nigeria 🇳🇬 in the first place and how it eventually played out.

We then talked about the integration process, knowing that we didn’t feel like we fit into our new societies immediately even though language wasn’t a barrier per se for any of us.

We also spoke about how we balance ourselves in trying to stay true to our Nigerian heritage and meeting the social and cultural expectations of our new environments.

Omo, it’s not exactly that straightforward.

Even trying to figure out where our loyalties should lie wasn’t simple; plus having to deal with the unrest that we know is happening back home sort of creates another mode of distress.

On a lighter note, we shared some of the not-so-funny stories that have happened to us as a result of being immigrants.

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