The moment Fechi opened her eyes to the harsh sunlight streaming into her room through the open window, the throbbing in her temples returned, bringing back to her mind the significant incidence of that morning. [...]
May 172012
Eletrika
Apr 242012
Chisom didn’t know why she had suddenly woken up at that time of the night, but at that moment she did, she noticed that her cubicle felt as though all the air inside it had [...]
Apr 032012
Set in contemporary Nigerian society, ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’ is a story woven around the perplexing happenings in a polygamous family comprising of Baba Segi, his four wives and seven children. Baba [...]
Apr 012012
In the good ol’ days Boiling blood of eager scribblers Bled by the hapless wield of muses’ swords Surged from the boundless ends of the community That encompassing abode next to none; A learning home [...]
Mar 152012
Dear son, It’s inanely ridiculous That each time I set eyes on your nakedness The first part of you that catches my eyes Is that roll of flesh between your legs Now, small, limp and [...]
Feb 272012
Reena’s heart stopped at the sound of the clear baritone cackling and rolling out heavy Igbo dialect that reverberated in the chilled evening air; Drum! A hot wave shot through her at his thought, and [...]
Feb 242012
Despite the hovering darkness in the midst of day Her beauty shone so brightly like light of a breaking dawn No matter that distance she could have been away Just a glimpse of her would [...]
Feb 112012
Each time you eer Instead of a wreaking reproach I make a solemn approach That I be not hurt again Or inflicted any more pain For the sake of our peace Which I dread so [...]
Feb 072012
I frizzle out at a good-looking mate’s sight I’m ‘gay’ It’s not my fault It’s just the way my emotions were formed My supple body gets me everything I want I’m a prostitute It’s not [...]
Dec 082011
Slowly, I get up from the bed and make towards the wardrobe with lush thoughts of the few times we had spent outside in the past swiveling in my mind. But those times were quite [...]
Dec 042011
As I stare at my image in the mirror with eyes wide with admiration, I’m overwhelmed with strong emotions as vague thoughts of how much my life has changed since I met him converge slowly [...]
Nov 222011
Now, Upon you, my skin feels like fine velvet And my hair, like delicately drawn out silk My moulds are like the crests of Thebes And my face, like the polished headpiece of Aphrodite In [...]
Nov 152011
Outside, the sun had emerged in full glare and came down in hot, piercing rays. Probably, it was already late morning, or later still, afternoon, Chizi thought as she hurried back to the road with [...]
Nov 082011
I ignore her and continue eating. I wonder her business with couple matters! ‘Oga, thank you. Madam, thank you’, I suddenly hear her announce in her small voice and then leave for the kitchen, and [...]
Nov 032011
I raise my brows as I exchange glances with Mine and we cackle as we hum in response. Maggi never stays at our door long enough to get a response for her greeting. Neither does [...]
Oct 272011
It was usually impossible to get a commercial vehicle going straight to Ikeja from the estate. And so Chizi nearly fell into the road to stop the speeding yellow bus with outrageously blaring engine which [...]
Oct 222011
I’ve just got home from work after a busy free day at the office. Yes, busy free, I mean. I work in a publishing firm, my own publishing firm, which gives the reason for me [...]
Oct 182011
At that point she felt a little contented. At least, Chief hadn’t been the man to take her virginity. She hadn’t been too foolish to let that happen, because that would have hurt her much [...]
Oct 122011
How could she have stooped so low to fight a nonentity, a complete village girl, someone who wasn’t even good enough to be a househelp in her father’s house? The thought made her more bitter, [...]
Oct 112011
‘It’s your mother who is a whore!’ Chizi returned her co-wife’s vulglar abuse and rough poke of the mouth, against the silent nervous pleas of her heart to ignore the uncivilized, ill-bred bitch. But she [...]
Sep 142011
Women, you find everywhere But a real woman, you find only in the crevice of a wall Cramped quietly within its narrow space And waiting patiently upon that destined, golden eyes to see her She [...]
Jul 272011
Agadi Obiarure repressed the urge to rush franctically at the great messenger. No, she had to confirm that her instincts were right first. Again, her eyes fell on the deep, lips-like scar on his thigh, [...]
Jun 012011
That fateful night,her step-mother had sent her on a flimsy errand to a friend who lived down the dreary track leading to Amanzu. ‘Tell Nkiru that I got her message and I said thank you’her [...]
May 082011
No doubt Obiarure was born a tough woman but her torturous and dementing past had inadvertently turned her stiff. Ever since she arrived Okpala as a fugitive,she had lived as a recluse. The only people [...]
May 042011
Agadi Obiarure wobbled limply down the narrow track leading to Okporuku cave under the coal black darkness that loomed the night, an act which timing always hustled her deliriously haunting past down her unfading memory [...]