Rhoda felt Oladapo drifting away from her. He no longer seemed interested in spending time with her; he was barely home and when he was, he wanted to be alone. He had a faraway look in his eyes that she couldn’t explain and he looked burdened. She had tried to speak with him but itContinue reading The Family Part 32
The first time Niniola heard that her mother was pregnant for the sixth time she was furious. “Why? Why? How will you take care of it? How can you get pregnant when we’re trying to escape?” she had railed on, not understanding why her mother had been so careless.
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
