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Everyone thinks they know her.
They see the accent, the composure, the rooms she walks into as though she has always belonged there. What they cannot see is the question she has carried since she was four years old: where, exactly, is home?
Onyinye was born in eastern Nigeria to a mother who was a daughter before she was ever allowed to be a child. A mother forbidden to inherit from her own father, who married a wife into his name to rescue his lineage, then defied everyone to have a daughter of her own.
That daughter grows up gifted, watched, and never quite belonging. She survives a boarding house, an engineering faculty of two hundred and fifty boys, an engagement to a man who turned violent, and a wedding cancelled five days before it. She marries her best friend and builds a good life. Then she loses her mother, her marriage and her business inside the same season.
She arrives in Scotland with a thousand pounds, no map, and her children left behind until she can send for them. And she begins again.
Finding Home is a memoir about belonging, migration, faith and the cost of starting over. It is serious about all of it, and it is very funny, because that is how her people survive things. Each chapter opens with an Igbo proverb the chapter then earns.
For anyone who has ever arrived somewhere with more courage than certainty.
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About the Author
Onyinye Madubobi Igbokwe was born in eastern Nigeria and lives in Scotland.An electrical engineer by training, she began her career building a power plant in Nigeria as the only woman on site, and went on to found and run her own project management firm in Lagos before rebuilding that career from nothing in Scotland, where she now works in the technology sector.She is the founder of Knowvate Hub, a global community for ethnic minority entrepreneurs. She has been recognised as one of the 100 Black Leaders in Scotland Making a Difference by the National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University, and shortlisted as a Diversity Hero by The Herald and GenAnalytics. She holds an Advanced Project Management certificate from Stanford University, and is currently building two companies in Nigeria, Spyce Social and Fotopool. Finding Home is her first book. She wrote it for anyone who has ever arrived somewhere with more courage than certainty. She lives in Scotland with her three children. She makes excellent wine and plays football on Saturdays.
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