Ejiro sat in Mama Comfort’s bukka staring mournfully at the last piece of meat floating in the greasy pool of ewedu and gbegiri before him. It was the kind they called roundabout, his favorite, he [...]
Oct 222011
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Aug 102011
Sitting outside savouring the cool evening breeze, I listen to my neighbour Mama Ofure, as she rains curses upon the poor creature again. She punctuates her stream of curses with slaps and claps, as her [...]
Aug 072011
Chapter 1 contd… —— Ahigbe’s mother tried to make him see reason. What good was a craft if he could not use it to put food on the table? When he could not get [...]
Jul 202011
“The cockroach knows how to sing and dance; it is the hen that prevents it from performing its art during the day” Though she would never admit it to anyone else, Ofure knew she was [...]
Jul 092011
Part 1 They came to me again tonight in my sleep. Crawling all over my body, spindly legs and skeletal frames, determined to burrow into every crevice, to devour me from within. Every night they [...]