“This is my best muse, but write better than he speaks”
This comment that I consider fair
Provoked an “Aaaah!” from him
His face giving off
The faithfuls’ fear for
A seamless sinner
——
Dec 212010
Abdulwasiu Hassan
Sep 132010
“Boy, are you a witch? If not, why is your body rejecting iron?” asks the man with the pair of scissors. I tell him about the needle, about the car that knocked down Daddy, how [...]
Sep 062010
Before two days, two people in white garment come and take me out of the dark room. They say they are men of God. They say they come earlier because if I am a witch, [...]
Sep 012010
It is very important for me to know the answer to the question “Am I a witch?”. Many people have accused me of a craft I only see in films that they call Nollywood. I [...]
Aug 262010
“Mara, see me after the class,” said Mr. Ethics “but you should come alone.” He concluded the last part of the sentence with his index finger standing while the rest clutched at a red mini [...]
Aug 192010
It started with a loud, long crunching sound early in the morning. The alarmed man made for the door pulling on his half-worn trousers to see what was happening outside the extremely narrow lavatory. Before [...]
Aug 152010
CHARACTERS BINTU: She is a divorcee who has to suffer a lot of abuse and difficulties in single-handedly raising her child without a helping hand from her husband, Sakau, who divorced her under the pretext [...]
Aug 132010
At least the belief that the Prime Minister had let go of Dele’s popularity was widespread among opinion leaders across the country. In the mean time, the president had sent two unknown persons to go [...]
Aug 102010
Dele was abducted on the best day of his life: his wedding day. The wedding took place in an upscale area of Lagos –Victoria Island —though he resided in Mushin, an area comparably poor. He [...]
Aug 072010
The Kaduna-bound bus had just left the crisis-ridden Jos, the Plateau state capital, unscathed to the relief of the passengers who had their hearts in their mouths during the bus’ seemingly un-ending passage through the [...]
Aug 032010
“Get up, you lazy boy!” growled Master as he knocked the dosing boy on the head with the handle of the screw driver he had been using to pock the car’s carburetor. “Be gentle with [...]
Jul 272010
“It is not what you think” He jerked his motorcycle repeatedly by continuously giving it sudden shot accelerations. This action paid up to his sensual delight, his passenger’s ample breast intermittently bumped in to his [...]
Jul 152010
“My odyssey”, the autobiography of the first president of Nigeria, late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, is one of my best Nigerian books. The most inspiring part of the book is how he was able to realise [...]