You are still young in a tattered blue plain yard shirt and blue trousers. Your eyes are wearing Shea butter making you blind to the world. You have eczema scattered round your brown dry peeling Read More
Nov 232013
life
Nov 202013
Pieces of my childhood, Bits of my youth, Lined at my back. Bits and pieces of my back Like oysters on the sea shores of time. I still feel the calling of the parts: To Read More
Nov 192013
How fairing shall it be to these men’s ears A curse, good news? That an unplucked Flower So does breathes and shines in this time of ours; ‘Cause our eyes blind to the beauty she Read More
Nov 042013
The cool morning breeze Soft-tapping on my door again and again Like a secret lover Seeking to sneak in Secretly. Many morning birds On the trees Just ahead my verandah Chirping happily Like ten thousand Read More
Nov 032013
What is HU? Someone has just asked me. We each have a heart, head, hands and heels. Every so often, because we are still thinking of ourselves only as human beings, we operate as a Read More
Oct 272013
The wino had a crooked stagger, he was high off life Trying to drown all his sorrow and strife In bottles of booze, gin and juice, no-one to control him, never had a wife Now Read More
Oct 262013
Life makes children like their parents inwardly and leaves the rest in their hands. The other day I stumbled upon the photo of my cousin’s dad when he was the age of this cousin of Read More
Oct 232013
I should be asleep and dreaming, But another dream keeps me awake, Pray a dream it won’t remain, Or will it, my heart forever to break? A loud voice within calls, “hey, boy, smell the Read More
Oct 212013
Three weeks ago, I almost died. And since then, the terror of the incident has been hiding under my skin. I still see flashes of heads spinning in the dust with their very last words Read More
Oct 202013
Money no de hide! The worst case happened in the last two years before, when he attended a screening interview at the national sports commission. There were only two candidates. One came for action dressed Read More
Oct 172013
I was at breakfast in this flagship hotel in a district of FCDA. I had come in my church-label designer dressing. The steward probably read my dress code before drawing out my seat to be Read More
Oct 122013
I am grateful for your kind responses to: A New Kind of Messiah. By comment and cross contribution you renew my belief that Nigeria is the country with the most love for God by the Read More
Oct 092013
Photo credits: www.123rf.com Passion. It was sorely lacking in Kiru’s life. Stuck with her near-predictable boyfriend and mundane job, she often wished that excitement would creep up and bite her in the ass, just this Read More
Oct 092013
Why would you worry to fight and die. Look at uncommon births and deaths that our God-loving country has sacrificed in the cause of contending this Sect. The sudden birth of barricades at every important Read More
Oct 082013
I kept on running as Uncle Fijabi pursued me with a cutlass, with blood streaming down a side of his face where I had deliberately stabbed him. I knew he was losing vision so I Read More
Oct 012013
I wish, I wish, I wish to see old grandma again, to hear her tales, tales of valiant warriors long gone, oh, the legend, Ikemdi, I still remember, a young boy who must choose between Read More
Oct 012013
Yandev is a settlement struggling to survive as an outpost of Gboko, the capital of Tiv Kingdom in Benue State. It is the nearest neighbour in its own right and chances are that it was Read More
Sep 252013
1 This would alarm you, just as it has alarmed everybody who have heard it from me, but at an age where most people were probably struggling with Ali and Simbi or Queen’s Premier, I, Read More
Sep 202013
Those lengthy walks on shady roads were short ‘Cos mama always carried me on her back. And all thoughts of my dirty cloths and uniform I abort ‘Cos sisters would wash them in bulk. Play Read More
Sep 202013
The calm sea breeze caressed our skins as we sat on the sand, our legs drawn in until our heels touched our bums. We sat so close together that from afar in the dark, Read More