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Nathania Atkinson is a PhD Scholar in American Studies with a specific interest in Womanism, Entrepreneurship, Social, political, economic and cultural advancement, intersectionality, diaspora economies, powernomics and motherhood.
My name is Ihuaku Nweke (Nee Obi Nwagwu / Chinyere-Ezeh). I was born in Lagos Nigeria to a late Medical Doctor Father and an Accountant. My life up until the age of 11 years old was pretty enchanted. We lived in a peaceful area of middle class Owerri in the Eastern part of Nigeria.
I was deeply depressed, suffering with anxiety, not really sleeping right or eating well, just going through the motions because I had to. I was also dealing with my mum who had been diagnosed with bipolar a few years prior which made a lot of sense.
A hospital baby, born in October 1970, slap bang in the middle of the UK in the city of Leicester.