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Njideka Akunyili Crosby's family wanted her to study medicine.

Her father was a surgeon. Her mother a professor of pharmacology.

One painting class at a Philadelphia community college changed everything.

The Akunyili household in Enugu had a language.

That language was medicine.

Father: Chike Akunyili. Surgeon.

Mother: Dora Akunyili. Pharmacology professor. Future NAFDAC Director General.

Six children. All expected to follow the path.

Njideka followed it, until she didn't.

She arrived in America at 16. Did her gap year. Returned to Nigeria. Completed National Youth Service. Came back to Philadelphia.

And walked into a community college classroom.

First oil painting class.

Something happened that no biology textbook could explain.

Her teacher Jeff Reed saw it immediately.

He said: you should apply to Swarthmore College.

She applied.

She got in.

She studied biology AND art, a compromise for the family, a revelation for herself.

At Swarthmore she met Justin Crosby, the Texas artist who would become her husband.

She went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Then Yale for her MFA.

The family that produced a surgeon, a pharmacology professor, and Nigeria's greatest drug regulator also produced the woman who would paint the Obamas' first official joint portrait.

They all had the same thing in common:

A commitment to doing something that matters.

The tools were different.

The impact is comparable.
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check it here Read/debate and vote people's opinions on the Nigerian Reddit

Honestly, my problem isnt even with the UI of this site, its just fine that way, but i hate the fact that doest run like a democracy(tommorow's democracy day sef )
I'm just coming from Zyke, the supposed Nigerian reddit with a handful of active users. If you misyarn dem go downvote your opinion to bottom pot. E no too get mods like that.
I just wish we had the ability to upvote and downvote some opinions

check it here Read/debate and vote people's opinions on the Nigerian Reddit

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