Claiming Pieces of My Childhood in Sweden

Part III: Searching for Home Across Continents

Stockholm. Photo by Christina Hoag.

I started my odyssey in Stockholm, where I lived as a baby. The contrast between Northern Europe and my Africa could not be more extreme. Lagos, Nigeria, is vibrant, the vivid colors and patterned cloth, its legendary music and movie industries, the multitude of evangelical churches that provide hope along with welcome packets of maize flour. But…