Josephine Dean is a mother and West African fiction writer whose short stories capture lifelong experiences about her homeland and modern life in the diaspora. Though not always easy even in retirement, she makes time to write and share stories to All, here on her blog.

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Stories by Josephine Dean are a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the writer’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events are purely coincidental.