AUGUST 1997 Father was, in his heyday, a bit of a treasure hunter. Mother told me one dark, quiet night when N.E.P.A had done that for...
It was yet another Sunday, and life was taking the same pattern as always for the last six years. His alarm had gone off at 5am,...
‘Chi Chi is there a problem?’ ‘No mama,’ Chinyere replied. ‘You seem sad?’ her mother insisted. ‘Mama…Emeka and I just broke up.’ Chinyere confessed. ‘What happened?’...
She pulled the shawl closer to her body as she walked on. The wind had picked up. She knew she had to think fast or she...
As a child, he had thought of going mad. It was in that summer, with the smell of green trees and the rash smell of scent...
At first, it sounded like a ludicrous joke. But when the bill imposing jail terms on social media critics found guilty of inciting the public against...
Ilemona had just got back from the market and was about to start preparing supper. The sun was going down and Baba would be back home...
Dear God, Mummy and Daddy are at it again today. Mummy’s shouting woke me up. At first, I thought there had been a fire or a...
Walking home afterwards, Adaeze was surprised that everything seemed so normal. The sun was still shining, people were still walking up and down, the regular hubbub...
Silence is how you respond when she tells you, her usually lilting voice that always reminds you of the seaside at dawn now trembling with pain,...
Rhea’s stilettos clicked noisily like distressed night crickets as she ran out of the church hall, and down the cold cobbled pavement. Her heavily rouged cheeks...
I couldn’t let go.The last time I let go, I had no idea that thirteen wild years would pass before his arms shrouded my body in...
Shalewa dodged the nurse quickly enough to avoid a head-bump. She was late for her practical class because of the stupid stomach upset she’d had all...
She feels herself rising into consciousness from the restless sleep she has had. Getting up as stealthily as she can manage she glances at the digital...
You don’t think of love on February 14, when the chair opposite you sits idly and leans against the table, casting its shadows against the sunshine-yellow...
It was 11:48pm on March 15, my twenty-first birthday and the third time I stared at my phone patiently waiting for your call. It was a...
When I was younger my mother told me “Koko be content with what you have”, she practically drummed it into my ears but I never understood...
Hours later, the ladies were relaxed on the patio of Ini’s apartment going through their shopping bags. They were all smiles—another satisfying day of shopping. Quality...
It was 4am on a chilly November dawn in Durham. Leonora clasped her arms around her knees which she’d drawn against her chest to her chin...
The little boy’s pose would have made Auguste Rodin proud. He sat on what was once the concrete base of a streetlamp with his chin on...
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