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What if the life you were born into was never the life you were meant to settle for?
For years, she has been told-sometimes gently, sometimes without words-that there are certain things a girl should want.
A good education, yes.
A respectable future, yes.
But eventually, there is marriage, family, and a life that fits neatly into the expectations placed before her.
She wants something different.
Growing up in a middle-class Nigerian family, she has always dreamed of studying abroad and becoming a voice for young women who, like her, have been taught to make their dreams smaller.
Then an opportunity presents itself.
Oxford.
Suddenly, the girl who was once told to be grateful for the opportunities she already had is competing for a chance to completely change the course of her life.
But ambition comes with competition. Expectations follow her farther than she expected. And somewhere between the life she came from and the woman she is becoming, she begins to question what she truly wants.
Maybe breaking a cycle isn't as simple as leaving home.
Maybe changing the future means first understanding yourself.
ALTER THE LOOP
A story about ambition, identity, family, faith, friendship, competition, and finding the courage to want more.