“How could you be so careless?” Bala said dropping the piece of meat in his hand in the plate before him, his bushy eyebrows bunched up together. It was early in the morning, they sat in Bala’s favorite restaurant beside the Ministry of Finance.
“What are you going to do now?” Sewa asked Florence whose eyes had become bloodshot with incessant crying. They were seated a little distance away from the cooks who were cooking the last batch of meat for the day. It had been four days since the incident with Uche. “I don’t know, I have searchedContinue reading Abowu District Episode 44
Toye read the file he had picked from Philomena’s bag. It was a log of all the activities of his gang. Uche liked to keep records of what had come in and how much profit he could expect. He sat at the table in his office and began to make a copy of the logContinue reading Abowu District Episode 43
Their daughter had been born a week ago and Annabelle’s joy should have been full but it wasn’t. First of all, Mama Abegunde had refused to come and help take care of the baby following the tradition of Yoruba people. And she hadn’t dared to send her own mother an invitation knowing how strained theirContinue reading Abowu District Episode 42
Becky stared at Toye, unable to move. How had he found her? “My dear, are you alright?” the woman beside her asked. “Yes ma, I am fine. I will go and bring your food now.” The woman stared at Becky’s trembling hands and heard the tremor in her voice. She looked in Toye’s direction andContinue reading Abowu District Episode 41
“Becky! Where have you been?” Sewa yelled. “I was helping the cooks…” “Leave that. There is an important looking group at the third table, please attend to them well. We need those kind of customers.”
Becky sat with her thighs up against her breasts. She stared at the moon through the drawn curtain and allowed the perfect whiteness of it to calm her nerves. Her son was snoring softly beside her on the mat. The boy was everything to her and every day she told herself that she would giveContinue reading Abowu District Episode 39
