A Nigerian living in the UK has finally located her biological father after years of looking, all because of a fortuitous Instagram encounter.
A post on X (formerly Twitter) by user @JennipherUwa claims that the poignant reunion started when an Instagram page for an Igbo community asked its followers to leave a comment indicating their place of origin.
Jennipher replied that she was from Amaimo, Ikeduru, which is in Imo State. She also got responses from people who lived in the same area.
Jennipher received a direct message later that day from a woman in the UK who identified herself as an Ikeduru native. They exchanged pleasantries and then drifted apart for a time.
However, the woman reached out again recently, this time revealing a deeper reason for her interest.
She clarified that she had been looking for her father’s family since 2021 but had only a surname and a hazy recollection of a village name that her mother had once mentioned, but she had declined to give any other information.
She had spent years, both financially and emotionally, attempting to trace her roots, but she had never met her father or any of his family.
“She broke down in her voice notes,” Jennipher wrote. “I asked for a few minutes and called my mom. When I mentioned the surname, she recognized it and gave me helpful details.”
Jennipher went further to explain the structure of Amaimo and its smaller villages, and promised to speak with her father and uncle—locals with deep ties to the community.
“Later that evening, she texted me,” Jennipher shared. “With the information I gave her, she spoke with someone in the UK, and they found her father. He’s alive.”
After years of pain and uncertainty, the UK-based woman has finally reconnected with her father, all thanks to a social media post and the kindness of a stranger who happened to be from the same hometown.
“I’m just so happy I could play a small role in reconnecting her with her roots,” Jennipher concluded.
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