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 […]

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 […]

I’ve never been one to go with the crowd. In my final year of secondary school however, I made an exception — everyone was handing out a slumbook and I followed suit. I was one of the strictest male prefects in my set — especially to the girls because I reputedly never smiled (I did […]

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I can’t remember what P said to me. I couldn’t even remember what it had been a day later. That said, whatever it was was enough to set me off. My blood boiled. He knew that look. He knew I got angry very easily. He was bigger than I was and would have given me […]