Minutes After Midnight… My Dearest Chi, Nwa’m. Hmmmmm. My one and only yellow paw-paw, how are you? It is a few minutes after midnight. I was woken by the sighing and moaning from [...]
Nov 252011
Toluwalase
Oct 122011
You adjust the glove on your left hand, tighten the loosened knot once again. Yours has not been dipped into bucketful of broken glass pieces as all the other boxers often do. Neither have you [...]
Oct 112011
Close your eyes. Listen. Can you hear it? Can you hear the beating of the drums in the nearby distance? Boom. Badaboom. Boom. Boom. Badaboom. Yes you can. You place your hands close to your [...]
Sep 292011
Here I am. Settled in, waiting patiently with a mug of freshly brewed dark coffee cradled in my hand, my oversized sweater draped around my shoulder, staring at my screen. I look over my shoulder, [...]
Aug 282011
‘He told me to come to his room that he had something important to tell me… I don’t even think I knew what the word important meant,’ she laughed dryly, ‘I was groggy from sleep [...]
Aug 262011
I could hear my voice echo, its squeaky tones bounce against the glass walls and sturdy furniture. I would have like to stop but I did not know how to. I was too overwhelmed, exhilarated [...]
Aug 232011
There were no claps of thunder or flashes of lightning, nothing spectacular as we often liked to tie to changes. But I guess that depends on which perspective you tend to look at things from. [...]
Aug 202011
There were too many barricades along the cross-country roads, at least after every fifty-something miles or thereabout we were waved down by a band of men clad in their sombre uniforms and lopsided berets. They [...]