The Farewell The morning of the wedding arrived in Ekiti with an unfamiliar but joyful kind of noise. True to Mallam Muhammadu’s strict rules, no traditional talking drums, no gangan or secular musical instruments were allowed anywhere near the compound. In an Ekiti neighbourhood known for loud, earth-shaking wedding parties, the absence of drums was […]
The Heavy List He sat by the window, his gaze fixed outside. Thick, clustered green shrubs of varying heights held onto each other, arm in arm along the roadside, as if they needed one another to survive, their dense green scenery seeming to flow backward as the car pressed onward. Even though his mind was […]
The Reunion Her phone’s ringing tone cuts across the room, bringing her back from the thought of being a motherly superhero, to the curiosity of who could be calling. She springs up towards the phone; her sister, Faoziyyah is calling and again she hesitates to pick it up. The phone rings once and then twice […]
