I met Deborah at the officer’s mess. Her friends had come to visit a Colonel when I saw her confidently seated all by herself sipping on her chilled soda. She had told […]
The Soldier Boy- Part 3
The Soldier Boy- Part 2
When we were alerted of the coup, I was undertaking a commander’s course in Bauchi where I was ousted amongst others from our apartments, stripped of any form of metal and rounded […]
The Soldier Boy- Pt 1
When I was a boy, my dream was to be a soldier. I wanted to be a soldier so much than I wanted to be alive. I would watch the uniforms, guns, […]
COMPLICATED-20
After parking as close to the entrance of his flat as he could, he came around to her side of the car and picked her up with some difficulty. When he straightened […]
Complicated- 15
As Claire walked away, she felt really good with herself, “I will show that woman yet. . .” she thought. When she got home, Ken and Susan were still seated in the […]
Institutionalised Racism- Part 3
At first, she only wanted to write about American blacks before she saw the news on AIT about a university lady that was murdered inside a church while she was reading and […]
Institutionalised Racism- Part 2
“That was my thesis – Institutionalised racism in a free country. While I was there, I never wanted to be on the other side of the law. What was scarier was watching […]
Institutionalised Racism- Part 1
Uju was watching the news with her husband as it had become their custom – to watch the eight o’clock AIT news together. To them it unveiled a sense of bond, of […]
Nothing is Ever Enough; Part 3
She wondered why some Nigerian Universities grading system revolved around money and other vices. Why lecturers were allowed to hold an upper hand in such vices. Why the students who didn’t want to be part of such vices or associated with them were the ones that failed and the cooperating ones, the ones that bought the unedited, plagiarised textbooks and offered their bodies at will were the ones that passed. She wondered if some of these lecturers in their acclaimed wide readings and researches had ever come across values of discipline, civility, honesty and straightforwardness.
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