The dark green lorry is full and begins a creaky and bumpy ride down the dry path. From where I sit, I idly watch the dust covered plants as they run off in the opposite [...]
Aug 282011
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Aug 252011
Read Part 1 – What Night is The twin headlamps of an oncoming vehicle spot a snake on the side of an untarred road and the reticent reptile slithers off quickly into a nearby bush. [...]
Aug 182011
I know a place where he often went. It was on the seashore. Just in front of the ocean where I worked as a boatman. He would sit there for hours watching the birds of [...]
Aug 142011
Local research, subject to verification, claims that in public you come across an unknown stranger once in every two minutes. Another concurs, affirming that the only reason one comes across a recognizable face in public [...]
May 092011
The old drunkard staggers off the dusty path with a faulty step. He regains his steps and tries to return to his former position before succumbing to a fit of wild noisy laughter. And as [...]
Apr 272011
WHAT NIGHT IS It’s chilly on a Saturday night in Lagos. Illuminated edifices stare silently beyond the Atlantic into foreign lands. Roads have already begun to wear thin of traffic and a minute or so [...]
Apr 212011
11 January 1970 There is no sun when we reach Arochukwu. Nnanyi says that it is a three day trek from here through thick bushes all the way to Calabar. He says it is dependent [...]