Esther Akinsanya died days after testing positive for the coronavirus, in the same hospital where just a week earlier she was treating patients on the frontline.
It’s been two weeks since Samuel Akinsanya’s mother Esther died, aged 55, and he’s still constantly replaying in his head the last conversation they had.
let me just give hope to my children, that I'm still coming home, that I'm going to be fine, I'm in the best handsCourtesy of Samuel AkinsanyaBorn in Lagos, Nigeria, Esther made the decision to move to the UK in the early ‘90s after discovering she was pregnant with Samuel, her first child. She made a home for herself in south London while laying the foundations to help her big sister, Mary Idowu join her shortly after.
“I remember times when I would wake up early in the morning around 3, 4 a.m. before all the offices would open for their normal 9 to 5 and we’d take the bus,” he said. “I just used to sit in there while they would go and get the cleaning supplies from the cupboard and clean the offices.” “She had a ball every time she went to work, doing what she did, she enjoyed meeting people, seeing new people because she had a way with them. She just wanted to enjoy life to the fullest.”Samuel, a photographer, described his mother as one of his muses.
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