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Stories by Muhammed Bello, Olatunji Olaigbe

Muhammed Bello, Olatunji Olaigbe18 Jan 2025
Nigeria’s Cocoa Industry in Shambles as Farmers Battle Theft and Violence
Every morning, farmers at Araromi Oke-Odo, a rural community in the Ife-South Local Government Area of Osun, South West Nigeria, tread the moist paths to their farms. They carry sickles and empty sacks, hoping to fill them with dark brown pods by evening. One such morning for Micheal Adediji, a cocoa farmer, took a bitter […]
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Olatunji Olaigbe1 Apr 2021
Orphans, Vulnerable Children, Struggle With Nigerian Systems, Family Rejection
Shade* dreams of meeting her mother. At night, she imagines an oval-faced woman with lots of hair who looks like her. Shade is often overcome with grief because imaginations are all she has left. Oftentimes, the feeling is not happiness, or sadness, or even hatred. She says she sometimes does not know what to think […]
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Nigeria’s Cocoa Industry in Shambles as Farmers Battle Theft and Violence