Steps to Tomorrow: My Destiny, My Choice

When seventeen-year-old Zola Okoye—a driven, big-hearted chimpanzee with dreams of becoming a maternity nurse—faces an unplanned pregnancy, her carefully mapped future collapses into chaos. Caught between the expectations of her family, the cruelty of classmates, the silence of her boyfriend, and the firestorm of public judgment, Zola is thrust into the most personal and polarizing decision of her life.

But as she confronts fear, shame, and the voices trying to control her body and her destiny, Zola begins a powerful journey toward self-advocacy. Inspired by the ancestral stories her grandfather taught her, she learns that freedom isn’t given—it’s claimed.