Fatima Abdullahi, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/fatima-abdullahi/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:35:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Fatima Abdullahi, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/fatima-abdullahi/ 32 32 153713158 Untethered, Unclaimed, Unbroken https://www.midnightandindigo.com/unclaimed-unbroken/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:00:22 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=79684 It is a Saturday, and the sweltering Nigerian sun seems to have a point to prove, or a vendetta. I walk toward the cavernous hall, following my mother’s uneven steps. She has had arthritis for several years now, and a host of other problems that have permanently altered the way she walks. Like Chinonso Nzeh lamented so heart wrenchingly in his award winning essay, my mother is “slipping away.” I pause behind her while she climbs the steps, tracking her feet with my eyes and wondering at what age I will start experiencing the same afflictions. Hers had started in

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