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Carlos Barragán
@CarlosBarraganT
Spaniard in New York. MFA in nonfiction writing @Columbia (22-24) thanks to @FundlaCaixa. Reporter @elconfidencial (18-22). Cmj2203@columbia.edu
Jun 29, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
In 2015, my mother fell in love online with an American soldier who was, in fact, a Nigerian romance scammer.

Seven years later, I travelled to Lagos to search for him, immersing myself in the world of "Yahoo Boys."
magazine.atavist.com/the-romance-sc… Today, I published part of the story I’ve been working on for the past year and a half in the @atavist magazine—the best of the best longform journalism publications in the US.

magazine.atavist.com/the-romance-sc…