As told to Sheriff I thought I was going to have a typical conversation with Daniel* when we somehow hit on the issue of climate change and what it’s doing to people down south. Then he told me that he’d lost his mother to mercury poisoning.  I grew up in Bayelsa in a family of […]

"The prospect of learning a new language in which I had no background frightened me. I mean, I've spoken English all my life and even now, I still sometimes confuse 'we're' and 'were'. No fear, Nothing spoil, I told myself, I'd wing it when I got to Germany. "