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May 6, 2022 · Asher's mother, Obiajulu Ejiofor, raced 4,000 miles to Nigeria, where she learned that it was her husband, Asher's father, who had died. Harper Collins "It was just such a difficult moment," Asher ...
Obiajulu Justina Ejiofor. Obiajulu Justina Ejiofor was born in the Nigerian village of Oyofo-Oghe in 1952. She was the eldest child of nine, born to a 13 year-old mother with little formal education. The family initially lived in a two-room bungalow with dirt floors. It would be decades before they had running or reliable electricity.
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain Asher pays tribute to her mother ’s strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There’s been a fatal car crash, and one of them is dead.
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Apr 26, 2022 · Obiajulu Ejiofor did not have an easy life. As a teen, she had barely survived the Nigerian Civil War; then after emigrating to London, she felt isolated and was stung consistently by racism.
Feb 29, 2024 · The book tells the story of Asher’s mother, Obiajulu Ejiofor, a Nigerian immigrant living in London. Ejiofor raised Asher and her three siblings alone after her husband died in a car accident.
Apr 25, 2022 · Obiajulu Justina Ejiofor was raising a family in London when a car accident killed her husband, Arinze, a medical student, and critically injured son Chiwetel, then 11. With a baby on the way, she ...
Oct 28, 2022 · When Zain Ejiofor Asher was a schoolgirl in London, her mother, a widowed Nigerian immigrant with four young children, hatched an audacious plan: her eldest daughter would go to Oxford. Obiajulu ...
