Shifting Allegiances

By Amaka Lily

Subjects: Immigrants, Culture shock, Romans, nouvelles, Nigérians, Nigerians, Fiction, Conflit culturel

Description: If you had told Deka in 2005, as she sat on a plane bound for America, that she would one day wish to be in Nigeria, she would have spat in your face. Nigeria had been hell for her. She lived in a one room boys-quarter with 7 family members. She could not go to college or get a job. Poverty and Corruption were rampant. Nigerians who had the means had since fled the country. She would have left sooner, but had lacked the funds to do. She was never coming