I Had Only Three Native Outfits—and My Whole Town Knew Them by Heart

As a child in the late 1980s, I owned just three native outfits and rotated them for church every week. Everyone knew which clothes belonged to me. At home, hunger was familiar: my mother sometimes made garri balls with water, salt and palm oil for her children, while my hardworking parents struggled to make ends meet.

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