The Center Aisle

On the Sunday after her fathers burial, a daughter walks into a village church wearing his white agbada. Not through the side, quietly, as tradition expects but down the center aisle. The congregation turns. The priest stares. The whispers begin. And yet she does not lower her head. This is the story of that walk and everything it carries. A story about grief and defiance, about visibility in a world that prefers silence, about what it means to take up space when you were never meant to fit. Part memoir, part cultural commentary, The Center Aisle is a witness to the power of presence. It is for anyone who has ever felt out of place, anyone who has ever been told to shrink, anyone searching for the moment that proves freedom is possible. Because sometimes resistance doesnt look like a riot. For anyone who has ever felt undone by loss, this book is a mirror and a hand on the shoulder: a reminder that you are not alone, and that even here in the rubble there is a beginning.