Dr. Ejike Eze
The Journey to Manhood: A Young Boy’s Account of a Traumatic Bliss
By Ejike Eze The night before my initiation into the mmọnwọ society, I sat in my bed and stared through the small window of my room into the solid…
Hamilton Odunze
Editor-in-Chief
Welcome to the Month of March
Welcome to the Month of March Welcome to the month of March. If you hate winter as much as I do, I am sure you are praying for this cold…
August Agboola Browne
August Agboola Browne
August Agboola Browne is one of the most celebrated patriots in Poland. He was born on 22 July, 1895, to Wallace and Josephina Browne in Lagos, Nigeria. At a young…
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, perhaps the most celebrated African writer of all time, was born on November 16, 1930, and died on March 21, 2013. Achebe, who hailed from the town…
Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti
Fumilayo Ransome Kuti
Our biggest heroes were once children. Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was born in 1900 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. She was a Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women's rights activist. During the…
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Fela the Legend
Fela Ransome Kuti (Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome Kuti) was one of the most recognizable names in music. Born on 15 October 1938 and died on 2 August 1997, Fela was…
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Madam President
By Dr. Millicent Odunze-Geers Our biggest heroes were once children. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, born in 1938, is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th President of Liberia from…
Olaudah Equiano
THEY CAME BEFORE US
(1) Olaudah Equiano: The Father of American Autobiography In his acclaimed autobiography, Olaudah Equiano [Ọlaụda Ikwuanọ] told of his early childhood in Iseke, a community in the Igbo…
Hamilton Odunze
Editor-in-Chief
Why Nigerian Parents Expect Too Much from Their Children
By Hamilton Odunze Nigerians are the most educated immigrant group in the United States By now, everyone knows that Nigerians are the most educated immigrant group in the United States.…
Hamilton Odunze
Editor-in-Chief
Happy New Year
By Hamilton Odunze Editor-in-Chief Welcome to January 2021! On behalf of Nigerian Parents Magazine (NPM), I wish all of you a happy and prosperous new year. As we step into…