The robbers emptied their cartridge into our bodies. Katharine and Adaobi died instantly but I survived without one bullet wound. I don’t know why even up till the present moment but I suspect, in looking [...]
Jan 092012
Lakunle
Dec 022011
They beat the pulp out of me that night of the 30th day of September this year. It was the eve of the National Independence Anniversary, which for 50 years had been trailed by mixed [...]
Nov 222011
All the things that my mother told me will give me pride and earn me respect have come round to give me shame and ridicule. As the midwife approached me with my sixth child, who [...]
Nov 152011
A DEDICATION TO MY WIFE To whom I owe the leaping delight That quickens my senses in our wakingtime And the rhythm that governs the repose of our sleepingtime, the breathing in unison. Of lovers [...]
Mar 272011
The day for us to choose our governor. The downpour was sudden and so heavy that it stripped the streets of animals; the flood carried soaked posters that bore now-familiar faces of people, who had [...]