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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]