Nigeria, Jan. 2 -- "Personal success will not insulate you from the failures of your society." - Author unknown

For many Africans in the diaspora, there is a quiet but enduring dream that our children will not grow up as strangers to the land that shaped us. We long for them to feel a living connection to the motherland, not as tourists, but as heirs to a history, a culture, and a people. In pursuit of this, many families make deliberate sacrifices. Some send their children back home for a few formative years, enrolling them in secondary schools so they can absorb the rhythms of daily life, the discipline of communal living, and the cultural fluency no textbook can confer. At home and abroad, we immerse them in Afrobeats and in cuisines ...