You used to be a quiet catholic boy. You used to attend Mass everyday to your father’s disgust. My son, can you remember when you used to be an alter-boy [...]
Idoko Ojabo
A Weak Voice
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Poetry
May 272011
My tongue can’t speak your languages My skin has betrayed me All I have is my pen I suffer the torment raining in my heart I long for the rain [...]
May 242011
2 Can’t you remember me…? I’m your brother, Nurse Kandibe. I have been treating your wounds since they brought you back from Lagos. Ah… You have developed what the white [...]
HARAM IN JERUSALEM
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Fiction
May 062011
I flew into Nigeria from New Zealand a few days ago. It had been a while since I had been in the country. I had been brooding over the decision [...]
May 062011
The April 29th edition of Bookjam which took place at the Silverbird mall in Abuja was so interesting. It started with a debate about publishing rights. The argument that caught [...]
Mar 092011
Syn is tailing the taxi carting his mother and his brother. The taxi driver seems an expert in penetrating through the hold-ups. Syn is trying so hard not to lose [...]
Mar 062011
Your body just glows against the wind Glows gently against the night I watch you sleep wondering what ferments beneath the brows Is it the heaps of a family forecast [...]
