TK Crooks-Nwokedi and Chuba Nwokedi met in Lagos during Nigeria’s infamous “Detty December”, the city humming with music and humidity. Both were minutes from slipping out of a wedding reception when TK stopped to say goodbye to a friend standing beside a sharply dressed stranger. The stranger was Chuba, and the prospect of an early exit quickly vanished. Two hours later, they were still standing in the same spot, deep in conversation about politics, human rights, and the state of the planet.

Ten dates in ten days followed, and they have been inseparable ever since. Chuba had planned to propose in a restored 19th-century soap-factory-turned-château in the South of France, with his gravely ill father there to witness it. But life intervened: his father passed away days before the trip. “The

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