The Birth of a Podcast

Crystal Starr with a Microphone
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February 7, 2013. Time, 5:25pm.

I was in the ‘corpers’ lodge thinking of what I was going to have for dinner. I was low on cash and had been pretending I was on a fruit diet. That day however, I knew I couldn’t eat one more piece of fruit without going stark raving mad.

As I pondered on whether to get Indomie or go to another corps member’s room to stylishly ‘beg’ for food, my phone rang.

‘What are you doing?’

Goodbye Yola! Thanks for the Hard Knocks!

Farewell from Yola
Image by Awatiibadan

The first time I visited Yola, Adamawa state, was when I went for my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in October 2012. It was the first time in my life that I went far from home…and for me, it was my final escape from all I knew.