The Storyteller Series NG

We aim to collect true stories of the human experience, based in Abuja, Nigeria.

[The Storyteller Series NG @AbjStoryteller]

Call for Podcast StoryTellers - https://t.co/G6qiCmQZ0l

[Tribeca @Tribeca]

"We spend so much time searching for approval... I just feel liberated. I'm old enough that I really want to try to do the things I like now." Yesterday at #Tribeca2019 X, @NLyonne talked about being inspired by '70s tough guys and mirroring their determination in her own career:

[SHADES OF US @shadesofusafric]

Let us just drop this 👇 here. Maybe this will encourage you be helpful to your trash collectors.

#ShadesofUs
#TheGist
#UnsungHeroes
#TrashCollectors

https://t.co/J2RXZQUSDx

[Deehya_ @sadiyavans]

We should never underestimate the power of a story believed. People talk about the times past like the present is not a product of it's lies. People talk about the beauty of our culture like it didn't come with chains.

[The Storyteller Series NG @AbjStoryteller]

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[umar ibrahim @imp213x]

2 days ago I prayed magrib at Govt college mosque off Gwamna Road in kd. Immediately after salat a man stood up to talk about how life has become so daring for them around Zamfara and katsina states. He said every road leading out of katsina is almost not passable.

[Great Big Story @greatbigstory]

By repurposing old bike parts, @MayaPedal is creating sustainable, human-powered machines that can do everything from blend, wash clothes and shell nuts. Watch the story here: https://t.co/jyuA7sY6H1

[StoryCorps @StoryCorps]

When a man with autism became agitated in response to a new medication, his mother feared for his life. Hear how a Public Safety Sergeant helped them both get the care they needed that day. https://t.co/7pBSEzpKs0

[Sercle @Sercleinc]

We provide a safe space where survivors can speak out and share their stories anonymously: https://t.co/EHcqnVDMdF Speaking out is important because it not only helps survivors reconstruct repressed memory and master helplessness @buchionyegbule @eketiette @thetoolsman @AntoLecky

[Eromo Egbejule @EromoEgbejule]

My Taxify driver today has a remarkable story! Mother of 3 (first two are girls at top of their class in uni, she says) in her 40s, separated & was a cleaner in Dubai before. After being denied a US visa twice, she moved from Ibadan to Abuja to start driving a cab.

Born hustler.

[Dana Howard @HowArtHistory]

A hump day Great Big Story on silk weaving in Venice (a girl can dream...) https://t.co/fU8w5O7UeX via @GreatBigStory

[Young Storytellers @youngstory]

The look of pure joy when you get to see your story being brought to life on stage in front of you. Wanna make more faces like this happen? Volunteer to be an actor in a #BigShow - DM us for more details! (PC: Melike)

[The Storyteller Series NG @AbjStoryteller]

A story of awkward proportions

[Just Sally @MustardSally1]

I waved to a man because I thought he waved at me.
Apparently he waved to an other woman. So to get out of the awkward situation I kept my hand up and a taxi pulled over and drove me to the airport. I am now in Poland starting a new life.

[The Storyteller Series NG @AbjStoryteller]

Anyone can share any story they want about their self and people don’t have to like it.

[Teminator @duchesskk]

Helen Paul shared HER story about how she was conceived through rape and in the comments people are saying “this is not something you say outside”. Because you’re ashamed about something that doesn’t concern you, you want to silence her so you can be comfortable??

[Longreads @Longreads]

"I grew up a St. Bernard among greyhounds. It's hard to be cute if you're six feet tall," Ivins wrote in "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?" @ewooLA2015 @latimes @SaraJBenincasa #longreads https://t.co/cxESzndcVp

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Some of you have heard this story before. But I am at the airport and the woman at the counter has me triggered: she reminds me of the smiling German woman I met at a check-in counter in Berlin on my way to the US who is the reason I have trust issues in my life. Achtung!

[Provenance Africa @OnlyAfricaFacts]

90 years before French women became citizens of 🇫🇷, Queen Ndaté Yalla Mbodj already had one of Africa's strongest female armies that fought French colonialist troops for years.

She was the last great ruler of Waalo kingdom, in today's Senegal.

Ladies and gentlemen, her story...

[The Storyteller Series NG @AbjStoryteller]

We must tell our own stories. It was on here that someone was claiming wizkid or davido was the most well known Nigerian artist internationally as though Fela has never been.

[Femi Oke @FemiOke]

My first generation, 29-year-old Nigerian-American Uber driver doesn't know about Fela Kuti or any of the Kutis for that matter. 😲

We're now playing some on Spotify, because I'm on a mission. 😀

Is it even legal to be Nigerian and not know Fela? 🤷🏾‍♀️