Last week, I met a couple of Americans experiencing Lagos from a very fresh perspective and I immediately wanted to be a part of their experience. I figured it was the right time to explore Lagos from the eyes of an outsider....

On the path to the Point of No Return, a beach area where the slaves were taken into slave ships to other countries, and in many cases, their death, I noticed a large rusting structure that was commissioned by the government to become a modern tourist site.

Prior to seeing this picture, I was planning for a 2012 spring holiday, and most of the options I could think of were in Europe. Grateful is not a strong enough word to explain what I feel about seeing that one picture.

For the first 20 years of my life, as a semi-typical naïve Yoruba young lady, my experience with the Igbo food culture was limited to a one-time sample of yellow eba (garri mixed with palm oil) and okro soup from my neighbor’s plate.

A trip to Ireland for an epic road trip made its into my travel plans for the summer, before ending my year of travel with a long weekend road trip from Lagos to Anambra.

It was planned to be a fun-filled journey all the way for me and some friends but the journey to Grand Canyon started as a hot mess. We flew from Lagos with Virgin Atlantic ...

Traveling Solo while Nigerian and Female With eight years of solo travel experiences and over 30 countries visited, I can confidently say that traveling solo as a female Nigerian ...