I got to the school, took in the large fields and very school-like structures and realized I would be alone here. My mother was all the way in Lagos. All the way in Lagos! I Read More
Dec 182013
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Dec 162013
Fate crushed our path We met without a configured plan Luck crushed our path We liked each other at first sight Love crushed our path Affections dominated our games Faith crushed our path We held Read More
Dec 132013
Her soft heart, Like a tender pillow Through the test of time, It turned stony She loved me, but I broke her heart! Her white heart, Like a snow dully dewed Stained it with the Read More
Dec 122013
“I’m very sure, sir; the men did nothing to me,” I said, brushing tears away from my eyes with the back of my left hand. Mr. Ben Sighed and said, “This is a powerful situation. Read More
Dec 102013
My elder sister, Adetutu, had always told me, “When you fall in love, you will know it”, and every time I had nodded in the affirmative, the last nod was faster that the ‘killer Read More
Dec 052013
THE POWER OF CULTURE TO CREATE A BETTER FUTURE Dating back to the prehistoric period (almost 800 thousand years ago), from the Indus valley civilization (3000-1 500 BC) around northwest India using pictograms to Mesopotamian Read More
Dec 042013
It’s 2am on Saturday But to her, it’s 2pm on Monday For work flourishes at pounds rate And more customers await Unspoken anger available to highest bidder Euro takes care of trigone’s bladder A punch Read More
Dec 032013
They soon arrived at the stream. The whole place was as busy as ever; aged women and maidens abounded, washing clothes in basins by the stream. The water was only meant for household utensils and Read More
Dec 022013
Turn off the lights that lit their might Turn on our rights and focus their sight We’ve been down for far too long And this is wrong He works from am to pm making enough Read More
Nov 302013
Yetunde recalled that fateful day her father was said to have bidden the world farewell. She had just returned from school, alighting from a lorry returning to Kuti town from Igaolu village where her school Read More
Nov 272013
THe Angry Anopheles I hate my job! I hate it! And I wonder whose idea it was to place me on nightly duty permanently. O, the sweaty darkness! The disorienting slaps! The choking ‘death Read More
Nov 262013
Shadow 13 TONY I wondered why Laura would come to see me especially without Mabel. I should have known Frank would never knock if he were the one at the door. Laura had an urgent Read More
Nov 232013
Give me four black gongs (ding) Two enchanted seashells(dong) Mucus from a blind seer(ding) Cobra’s scales(dong) For someone has died(ding). Give me voodoo bowls(ding) A sacred lyre(dong) Give me nine stillborns(ding) Venom from a mamba’s Read More
Nov 192013
My perilous savior My friend, my escape, my master. Your absence in my life, a bane Your presence an even greater bane. But in your fumes I found solace My back faced anyone who wouldn’t Read More
Nov 152013
LOGGED-IN HEADQUARTERS PORT-HARCOURT 9 AM 3, DECEMBER 2015 Nicholas hurried down the hall way, his fingers wrapped around the briefcase held tight. The briefcase held nothing important but his nervous fingers could not tell the Read More
Nov 102013
Going through the calender seeing the month of November makes me remember the festive period of the good old days Conductor suits, Measured to size, Hanging on hangers, Alongside the ready-made dresses, In Papa’s wardrobe, Read More
Nov 062013
MY heart boils My ears prick My crannium cracks in blazes Like a molten of volcanoes As I recall the demise Of a colossus from Eastern Nigeria Late. Chief Chuba Okadigbo His life was a Read More
Oct 242013
For my mind before, My dreams don come true. I be se, If dem ask, ‘who will be your wife?’ I go quik quik point you. And if dem wan take you away, Then dem Read More
Oct 232013
When I was a little boy, my siblings and I, we walked miles to school. Secondary school. Wearing the green uniform and brown sandals (or barefoot if your sandals tore on the road), we walked Read More
Oct 192013
“So what do you suggest we do?” That was the question Kunle, standing at the head of the long rectangular table, posed to the man seated at the other end of the table. The man Read More