One sad consequence of global migration is the distance - literal & metaphorical - it puts between kids and their grandparents.

David Njoku

Growing up in East London, I never learned to speak Igbo, and since my grandparents couldn't speak English, we never had a real conversation before they died.

It's different with my kids; their grandparents speak English. But grandmas show love through food - and so they cook amala, ewedu, asaro - when all my kids want are chicken nuggets.