My mother at Loreto Girls Juniorate in Abak Akwa Ibom State Nigeria

Elizabeth, as a young teacher at Loreto School for Girls in Abak, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria (c. 1970)

My late mother Elizabeth (c. 1970), then a schoolteacher at the Loreto School for Girls in Abak, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. She taught there after the Civil War, shortly before coming to the United States for to attend college and earn her Master’s degree from State University of New York at Albany.