Seized by Love

In many parts of Nigeria, especially across Northern communities, seizures carry layers of misunderstanding. They are not just medical conditions; they are cultural battlegrounds; spaces where science, superstition, and spirituality intersect. 

For Amirah, each episode risks becoming both a health crisis and a social marker. It threatens her education, her sense of self, and her mother’s dignity. And beyond all that, it raises a deeper question: can one still be worthy of love when the body becomes unpredictable?

Through Amirah and Khalid’s journey, Seized by Love explores the borderlands between body and soul; how illness tests love, and how love illuminates illness. It is the story of a young woman confronting not only a neurological diagnosis but a world that barely understands it. 

Her seizures are not merely medical episodes; they are metaphors for life’s sudden fractures, moments when memory blurs and one must choose whether to fear the darkness or reach for the light within it.

On a deeper level, Seized by Love asks the reader to reconsider the meaning of normal. In a society that worships control, how do we accept the uncontrollable? How do we define identity when memory can betray us? And above all, how do we sustain love when life shakes us (literally and figuratively) without warning?

This story is a love letter to the human spirit; to all who live with invisible battles, to the families who try to understand them, and to the rare souls who choose love even when it requires patience that feels like faith.