Fainting at awkward moments was quick becoming my reputation in the village. And after three years of living with Iya Elewe, I started considering going back to my father because people would whisper when I pass by. Some think I’m a witch. Others try hard not to offend me, and some called me Omo omi. … Continue reading Black Bird – Chapter One(c)
Living in the village as opposed to town life was peaceful for me as a child. My school was only a few short kilometres away from home, and I didn’t break my back washing “aso giran” that my step mother never seemed to run out of. My grand mother Iya Elewe was the baale’s first … Continue reading BLACK BIRD – CHAPTER 1b
A picture is a secret about a secret The more it tells you, the less you know I should be comfortable. In sheets of egyptian cotton, Four Squared hotel felt like home. It was already 10pm when I got to my room because the traffic was just as bad as when I left the office … Continue reading Bleedin’ Louboutin – Part 11
I like it when you sleep You are so beautiful Yet so unaware I started regretting my choice to go to church, the moment we nosed in on the bumper of the ash colored Toyota avensis in front of us. Dennis was beaming from ear to ear, practically jumping for joy. He kept pointing out … Continue reading Bleedin’ Louboutin – Part 10
Cakes of concealer plastered on my face make me feel like a clown readied for a circus bit. Its a new world for me and so while the set designer and make up artist fly up and down trying to make it all perfect, I let my short life flash yet again. I beckoned on … Continue reading BLACK BIRD (Chapter 1a)
What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and all things nice. Its not just me. Every kid in our hamlet does it. Probably, every kid in the world. After our dunlop slippers are well worn and torn, we would make a music box out of it, by cutting out a compartment, and looking … Continue reading BLACK BIRD – Prologue
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword “Good morning” I greeted them all, staring pointedly at my mum. “Oh.. er Simi ” Mum … Continue reading Bleedin’ Louboutin – Part 9
Those who hang in corridors are going nowhere, coming from nowhere. Its been near a month since I had my encounter with Diddy. Everyday I drove into the parking garage at work and I think to myself, maybe today I’ll get a chance to speak with him. My hair was always laid like blessings and … Continue reading Bleedin Louboutin – Part 8
There’s a snail at the bottom of my garden And his name is Christopher crawl He’s crawling along my wall He crawls all night, he crawls all day he’s slowly crawling on his way There’s a snail but it wasn’t Christopher crawl in the nursery rhyme. It was Dede. It suddenly felt as if he … Continue reading Bleedin Louboutin – Part 7
When the lightening flashes When the thunder crashes Where do the little birds go? Shell shocked doesn’t even cut it. I crawled out of bed and ran out on the freak show I found lying next to me. How did that happen? Mama John gave me the stink eye when I went downstairs for my … Continue reading BLeeding Loboutin -Part 6
PART FIVE “Carve your heart out yourself Hopelessness is your cell Since you’ve drawn out these lines Are you protected from trying times? Man it takes a silly girl to lie About the dreams she has Lord, it takes a lonely one To wish that she had never dreamt at all” I sang along to … Continue reading Bleedin Louboutin – Part 5
On stepping out of the cab that took me all the way from Victoria Island to Shomolu I stood out like a sore thumb in my extravagant outfit. I couldn’t find time to change my clothes before coming over. All that was in my head was Jide. He was my peace, and I needed to … Continue reading Bleedin’ Louboutin – Part 4
I think I know why the dog howls at the moon. There’s always a need to hold on to something in a lonely world. If the moon refuses you, at least, the rest of the world loses sleep. “Hmmmmn! Kill me now!” Toni said with her mouth full of cavair, bringing me out of my … Continue reading Bleedin’ Louboutin – Part 3
Frederick Obu was unresponsive to the situation around him. While the woman beside him wiped her baby’s spit up with the edge of her wrapper, and the conductor argued with a bald head man over 20 naira change, he just stared outside the window of the danfo bus, thinking about the pink slip he had … Continue reading Our Ugly Potato Love
”Can we trust him?” She asked, and from one hollow eye socket to the other, they both had doubts about him. Watching as his car backed out of the cemetery, Kalize drifted and in a twinkle of an eye, she was gone from her father’s sight. In a second, she drifted about all of the … Continue reading FINISH MY BUSINESS – Part 2