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…for dad… I had that same dream again. Not the one where the owls whisper caution to the baobab tree or where the shrew tells the rat of the melody darkness makes of threat. It’s the dream where [...]

Every creak of the door and stamp on the floor raises my eyebrows and opens my windows. If I had one last wish and my heart one more beat, you’d be the air I’d wish and be the cause of the beat. [...]

If you thought you wouldn’t miss your grown-up daughter when she left for the mandatory NYSC service, you were wrong. Laide was a computer geek who didn’t care if everyone had a proper meal at [...]

Evidence of a passage Threatened as a girl age Never to be attributed to the faceless Lest its essence becomes baseless As the ripples of the sea is felt And the rain drizzle as droplet So does [...]

Every shimmering gold ignites amidst searing flames so let my pleasures burn to ashes while chiselling these shards of dreams into a masterpiece today, tomorrow and the day after until I [...]

“Wen, wen”, the baby cried out again. It’s 3:00 am in the morning and she had not closed her eyes for a second. She had fed him, cooed him and even sang for him but he won’t stop crying. The [...]

I was five years old when I woke up to a flooded house. Cloudy water poured in through the door and then through the open windows. Bearing pieces of wood, grass, and whatever else could float. [...]

Life was unpredictable until Egbon swept her off her feet like the giant walls of Jericho never meant to be rebuilt. When she fell in love, it was a painful but educational experience. And, it [...]

Remember when you told her “You will keep this love story for a long time if we’re to do this. “She stored your love story in a tightly lidded purple jar placed carefully in her bedside cupboard. [...]

I was fourteen and had just written the JSCEs. I had nothing else to do so I spent all my time in my room, playing video games and perusing sultry paperbacks whenever the power went out. My [...]