My cousin was encouraging me to join the military. No, he was not kidding and neither was I when I said maybe in a movie or in my next life! He is a soldier himself. First time I saw him carry a machine gun, leave alone this pepetas the boys in blue carry to maandamano […] More
He was just a town boy living in the village. When you have not grown up in the village, and at some point, life catapults you all the way from Lagos to a maize plantation in the middle of Ijebu-Igbo village, everyone knows you’re a rooster from the city. You smell like the city. You […] More
That Sunday afternoon found him saying Amen along with hundreds of other saints to the closing prayer led by the Pastor. Sundays are good days for him because he gets to spend more of the day in church. But this particular Sunday was bound to be longer than usual. He strolls through a parade of […] More
Sometimes our guts tell us things but we just don’t listen. Not because we don’t want to but because we don’t have the nudge to. We will be waiting to sit on a thorn that will send an electric surge through every goddamn nerve ending causing a high voltage resuscitation on our numb brains. That […] More
Last time I wrote here about checking up on your friends if you haven’t heard from them in a long time. Some of them might be in relationships that restrict them from keeping in touch with other people. They are in prisons they call relationships and they’ve fallen in love with the prison warden. They […] More
You’ve not heard from a friend in quite a long time? Maybe there’s a problem. A problem that forms a very good story but a very big sorry. Or maybe they just made it in life. That one can make quite a good story as well but a good sorry for yourself too. I mean, […] More
When a man ignores a call in your presence, better cry foul to the referee of life. Cry about your rights as a woman and plead for justice on your part. (Catch up on the previous episode here.) I have tried to remember a day I actively threw a cold shoulder on a call from […] More
“I think she left me because of money.” “Money that you had or didn’t? Sigh. “Which woman leaves a man because he’s drowning in money?” I laugh at myself for asking that in the first place. “If it was entirely because of the money, that’s okay. But at least I know it has to be […] More
Climb every mountain. Swim every ocean. Just to be with you…” Is the background song that he accords the season in his life that made him richer in wives than a typical 25 year old in these modern times. Well the song is not necessarily a dedication to the wives but the song that played […] More
Pushed Off A Cliff My mouth tastes like something metallic. My hands, tied up tightly, are numb and so are my feet. At the same time, it feels like my joints were broken apart and pieced together with tape. Something that feels like clamps are stuck on my ankles. I want to open my eyes, […] More
“I’m not chickening out Telvo. It’s just that…” I said. “Ah! There’s nothing to worry about. Come on sit your ass here and make some friends courtesy of the great shisha.” I looked at the clique and they were looking at me too. Their faces looked like saying “What’s up with this one? Never been […] More
Lying on the floor, helpless. Not moving a muscle. Nerves senseless. Unaware of everything else going on around. In fact, not even aware of whether the world exists anymore. It was a limbo situation. In between worlds. Maybe the world of the living and the world that is the abyss in between the world of […] More
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