Niniola put away the pots and dragged the rag across the wet floor. It had been another day of grueling hard work and she felt tired. She had spent two months with the Afonjas and she couldn’t see anything for her except running errands and cleaning pots. Her expectations of what her aunt would doContinue reading The Family Part 4
Mama Eli and Mama Ayo were in the sitting room downstairs with their children, it was a hot afternoon and the air conditioning was faulty. The children were clad only in their underwear and the women in their wrappers. The fact that they had just eaten a lunch of hot lafun and ewedu didn’t helpContinue reading The Family Part 2
The Holder family was still in shock. Damola was clingy, afraid to be without his mother, Kayinsola had taken time off work to be with her child, and Rotimi was always calling home to make sure his son was fine.
Rotimi drove furiously towards their home, angry at the situation. He hadn’t wanted to attend the wedding; to think that while he had been at the wedding of an embezzler, his son had been kidnapped was annoying.
The next morning Augusta listened intently as her husband reluctantly described Elder Mba’s office. “Okay, I get it.”
Leke was worried. He wasn’t broke, but his financial capacity was almost back to what it used to be.
Kayinsola was silent for some seconds. T.J had been her first boyfriend and it had been a turbulent relationship, he had introduced her to alcohol and cigarettes and for years she had struggled to break her addiction to them until she met Rotimi who had helped her overcome it.
