Coming Home: The UK-Trained Doctor Who Left a London Hospital for a Clinic in Rural Benue

Dr. Terna Iyorlumun is careful to correct a word people often use about him: "sacrifice." He dislikes it, politely but firmly, every time an interviewer or a well-meaning uncle reaches for it. "People say I sacrificed a comfortable life in England to come and suffer in Benue," he says, sitting in the modest office of a clinic he built in a community outside Gboko. "I prefer to say I redirected a comfortable life toward something that mattered more to me than comfort."