The pungent smell of rotten cheese woke me up. I batted a damp piece of fabric off my face to the floor: a purple lace underwear....
For most of her life, Ezinne felt like she lived in a cage, in a barricade despite the affluent lifestyle she had been blessed with. Having...
“All you leg shakers and rats, do you wonder why you are dullards in the classroom, unproductive in the fields and listless with your families? Of...
She had lived a long life. The old woman thought this as she peered at the quiet street below her. She had lived a long life....
It was an NYSC tradition to hold a bonfire on the last week of camp. Corpers had expressed shouts of joy on the parade ground the...
They would come every year, arriving suddenly at our home with their chatter in a language I struggled to greet in. My late father’s two sisters...
Hadiza dearie are you in?” I opened the door reflexively, I hadn’t even heard the knocks. They trooped in, what some would call my entourage. My...
“Could you zip me up, please?” Daye swallowed as he zipped up the dress, desperately trying not to look at the fastening of her pink lacy...
The room started getting hot and stuffy despite the ORL fan blowing at maximum speed in full swing, I started breaking out in beads of sweat....
“A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man...
There are certain things that do not change. The sun rises in the east. We eat rice on Sunday night. Every last Saturday of the month,...
It’s a glorious Sunday morning. The clock on the wall reads twenty minutes past eight, and as I lay against Jimi’s well-built body, I note to...
The eyes that looked back at her in the mirror lacked expression. Expression had died with her first scream. Thereafter, all that had been was blankness....
They were ten feet away. Dumebi calculated. On a particularly bad day, she went into her dad’s “handyman drawer”, as the household called it, and forced...
We never spoke again after that day, not for lack of trying on his part. He did call, many times, but I couldn’t bring myself to...
“I’ve never told this story to anyone before,” Tade said to Chudi and I. “Most new people we’ve met don’t ask, and Bimbo is the last...
I’m seated on the soft rug on the floor, between his legs. His fingers are dancing like a puppeteer’s fingers over my tangled, curly mop. With...
Obi and Chike knew this long-winded talk by Obi’s father was just not for him to hear himself talk. It pretty much meant to say that...
My name is Sheila, I’m 25 years old. This is my boyfriend. His name is Rob; he’s 60 years old. He has been in Nigeria for...
When I returned to Lagos, Kafiyah, who knew how stressed I was over the wedding, insisted that we needed a movie night. On our way to...
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