Mary was excited, the future held a lot of possibilities. She had just completed her WAEC and very soon would be going to the university. No one in her family had a university degree; her father who was a clerk in the local government office had only attended the college of education. She was aContinue reading Tales of a year: Wedding guns?
Kate pounded the foofoo energetically; her husband always wanted it to be stretchy and thick. She stopped to wipe her sweaty face and check on the bitter leaf soup she was cooking in her kitchen hut. She returned to the mortar and picked up her pestle ready to continue with the pounding when she feltContinue reading Tales of a year: Dinner and a surprise
Dear reader, I have begun another series. This however is unlike the previous one (Glimmer) because each post tells a different story about a different character (or characters as the case may be). These stories are inspired by my experiences during my service year in a village in the north central part of Nigeria. MrContinue reading Tales of a year: Chalkdust
For all those who have been taken… “You’re going to get yourself killed!” “I can’t do this” Jemaima cried “You have to! Look, it is either you die or you accept your fate” “I’d rather die. I am a married woman, I have children, I am an usher in my church! I can not doContinue reading Taken
He was gradually losing control. There was a debate going on in his mind weighing the pros and cons of the decision he was about to make. Here he was seated close to a beautiful girl who would give him what he wanted without any preamble. There was only one problem, she was five yearsContinue reading The Need to Be
They had been travelling for about two hours and she was beginning to feel very uncomfortable. She was lucky, the loud discordant music playing on the radio was helping to mask the sounds of her flatulence, and the smell coincided with that of the boiled egg the pregnant woman seated in front of her wasContinue reading Mortification!
The men sat on cement blocks facing the road, watching vehicles and people come and go, waiting for someone to make their day worthwhile. The market opposite them was gradually filing with up with buyers and sellers, the festive season was near. They had come with little or no expectation today because nothing happened yesterday.Continue reading Great Expectation