Recently, I was messing around on YouTube, and I stumbled across this short BBC documentary.
It’s interesting, because my life is very similar to Rahda’s life. We were raised in the Western world, and had only experienced our parents’ homelands as tourists there to visit family. We rarely experienced the daily ups and downs of living in our respective motherlands.
This video is worth your hour, so if you can spare the time, please do. Sexual violence, especially against women, is a problem across the developing world, and also in the “developed” world.
And I would encourage those of us that are second or third generation Westerners, endeavor to understand your parents’ and grandparents’ home. If you’re like me and Radha, you still have family there. There are people suffering, and you may be able to help.
Finally, I don’t want to just focus on the bad. I have recently been connecting to Nigeria more, and yes, I have found many ways the nation can improve. But I have also tapped in to many things that bring joy to the my cousins, the country, and now to me.
The Lightning Love 