How i moved abroad
Sometime ago,my uncle told my mum that it was impossible to raise responsible children in the environment i grew up.I look like an ‘aje butter'(to my non Nigerian readers 'aje butter' means a rich kid,thanks to my cute face) but grew up in a place i can call the photocopy of ‘ajegunle’(a place described as a slum). Looking at the environment from a distance,we look calm and collected but when you delve into the lifestyle of the people living there,it is a different story especially with the children i grew up with. I can recall a teenage girl getting pregnant and couldn’t point a finger to who got her pregnant not because she was raped.She was a ‘public staff’. All i can remember is how quick the so called responsible bachelors started relocating from the neighborhood in order for the teenage girl not to rob them in.It was quite pathetic. What was the difference that caused a difference in my own life? I will simply say is developing some set values at a tender a...