Seat 21C was the aisle seat five rows down, Kemi took it. Chioma and the others occupied the three rows in front of her. Kemi smiled when she noticed that Maimuna was seated across the aisle from her; who wouldn’t want to keep a close eye on a stranger – even if she looked entirely … Continue reading Higher Ground - Part 2
She’s been on a journey Just one of so many And right now she’s headed home She’s a house wife Her family her life On a trip to see her mum He’s a young man The pride of his clan On one of his hustling trips He’s old and rich Round like sandwich … Continue reading Last Prayer
Maxwell ignored whatever it was his wife was saying and hurried down the stairs that led to the ground floor of their duplex residence with his leather bag hanging down heavily from his left shoulder. It was already 12:30pm, exactly thirty minutes to the time his flight was scheduled to take off, yet he was … Continue reading Just a Little More Moment
Look at faces Etched on them are grim looks Under the unction of June 3 forced down their constricted throat- A food their bellies despise to eat. I feel their smouldering pain. I feel the searing blazing heat Emanating from vicious faces, Stunning onlookers- sending them into jaded cries. They peek into … Continue reading June 3, 2012
I slept back home, expecting a husband cousin, friend, only to see them dead on national television. i will miss you. we together planned how life will be i will miss your smiles, your encouragement. i will miss you. i will miss you, my pastor. you, who brought people into the altar of God you … Continue reading Pains of a torn brother
When Bilu first saw the figure, he thought that he’d seen a ghost, and so he jerked away from the window, bumping hard into Mama. Mama spilled the beans in the plastic cup, steadied herself, and then puckered her lips as she shot a hard stare at him. “What’s wrong with you?” With the … Continue reading Tickets to Oombi
The cab pulled to a stop at the curb and a hassled Maimuna stepped out of the back. The back of her maroon-colored blouse was visibly soaked through with sweat. She kept her shoulder-length black hair away from her round face with a simple elastic purple band. The black scarf she had secured around her … Continue reading Higher Ground - Part 1
(AN OPEN LETTER TO BASHORUN GAA) Sir, Now we know with certainty, What has been rolling aimlessly on our minds Like a confused stranger in a foreign Moscow, That we have indeed been duped And in daylight, robbed to shallow graves. Now we know That your Kongo is always hot watered Your … Continue reading Random Run IV
The wind blew gently reflecting its speed in the banana leaves it gently blew… Kunle was there sitted on a chair, amidst the banana tree. His chair was a rocking one. He had being undergoing endless cycles of rocking ever since he started thinking… Just yesterday, his parent called him in a round table … Continue reading She Is Staring At Me!!!
”Today, I must teach him never to get drunk again”, it was Papa’s voice. He was fuming with rage. I could hear him from where I was lying. I do know in no near time, he would storm into my room with guava cane and flog the hell out of me. As I make to … Continue reading The return of Amadioha 1
Adora Possessor of beauty And I, paddling the streams With a broken canoe Here I come To your fortuitous deeps By a fevered journey Solitary sweetness, rides the yellow tides, Skimming like oracles In the luxuries of your heart Priced as captivation in pure bloom Our native soldier, Amani died of lust before the sin … Continue reading Temptress I
Teach me to love to submit my notion under the reign of emotion not to be a novice in the office of emotion stark me naked of my raw mind to love make me not blind awake the feelings in me make me stop being mean let the passions in me swell I’m ready to … Continue reading Teach me to love
He drew out the straw and heavy headed termites clung furiously on its end. He scrapped them contentedly into a broken earthenware bowl; brought out another from the anthill and harvested. The spittle was drying off, so he ran the straw over his tongue and slid it into the hole; cursing the inedible brownish ones … Continue reading Teeth of a Snail 1
Time there was When their impotent friendship Gave birth to our virile comity Their dying embers Fanned our blossoming association We lost them But we found us Time there was When our sins with them Cradled our repentance with us Their hell Begot our heaven They ended We started Time there was When we had … Continue reading The Times They Are A-changin’
1 Wonderful He is to me Marvelous I deem Him to be As I wake up to find a new day Defiling the dangers of the night While being shielded by His grace 2 Noon then dawns on me with a smile As the sun heats my laundry dry Illuminating the earth with light … Continue reading Who He is