Posts by Azuka

Not exactly back

I haven’t exactly been too busy, but neither have I been idle since I last posted. I really had to take a break from blogging because it was getting too addictive. It was more like switching addictions — as bloggers whose Facebook walls I’ve been trolling will attest. Why exactly did I leave? Well, for […]

Leave

I will be away from blogging for a while. I need to concentrate on a project that’s been long overdue, and the blog world has been getting very heated. I don’t want to have to read the latest ‘Anonymous attacks’ being propagated on certain blogs[1][2][3], and I think I haven’t been doing a lot of […]

Predictions

I remember them almost like they happened yesterday. I was at school. My aunt hadn’t been getting any work for some months and when she did, it was from clients who kept owing. When a parent from our Port Harcourt group came to visit, I wrote a letter to everyone at home. It was fairly […]

Fear

I woke up drenched with cold perspiration, instinctively not daring to move. I felt something cold against my bare feet. Its feel was ticklish, and in another time and place I would have wiggled my toes and laughed but again, something kept me still. Whatever it was moved slowly up my thigh. I looked down […]

Gluteus Maximus

When a person doesn’t talk much, it is almost a given that he develops two other skills to compensate — the art of listening, and the art of observation. I used to be an artist. I would sit and stare at people, hoping to capture them in ways others never saw them with a pen […]

Umqombothi

I don’t know why, but I’ve been listening to this for almost all of today. If you’re seeing this, then you don’t have the flash player, or have disabled javascript. My deepest apologies. Download Umqombothi I’m almost done on the code for my writing site. I should be done this week or next and I’ll […]