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Sisi, When You Go Get Sense?

  • November 29, 2020
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    Despite the fact that you’d sworn before his face with sand in your tongue that you would never, never step your foot into his compound ever again, you…
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Shreds

  • November 29, 2020
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  Baba Sule has beaten his wife again, and as usual, she has brought the dispute to Mu’alim to mediate. The assailant stands, puffing, his arms crossed, his fists hiding…
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Mummy

  • November 29, 2020
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I was six when I knew Mummy was a witch. She had gone to the market that Saturday. Only my elder sister, Temi, who was asleep, and I were at…
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Flight 86A

  • September 29, 2020
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  UFUOMA BAKPORHE You know how waiting makes your skin crawl and you hate it. It is why you never wait for your friends to finish dressing up before you…
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The White Linen

  • September 29, 2020
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  OGBONNA CHIMEZIE The buzzing sound of the fireflies, the flapping of their wings and the clapping of their tiny legs serenaded the entire atmosphere. I pushed my feet into…
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Act of Contrition

  • September 29, 2020
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  OBINNA UDENWE It is Good Friday. Preoccupied with thoughts of having his twin daughters climb his back and ride him like a horse around the sitting room, the man…
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In Love with a Dead Man?

  • September 29, 2020
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  ALEX BYANYIKO “I don’t even know why I married you in the first place – not that you’re handsome or even rich,” my mother said, scowling as my father…
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A Grave Incident

  • September 29, 2020
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  SULEIMAN AYUBA Every last Saturday of the month, some of the youths of Ungwan Tirka gathered together in the cemetery to level the grass and rid the place of…
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Cousins and Cologne

  • September 29, 2020
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FAVOUR CHUKWUEMEKA The plane would descend in Asaba in about fifteen minutes. This means that we have less than fifteen minutes to be ourselves. The tea trolley finally leaves the…
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Yahoo Boy

  • September 29, 2020
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OLADAPO DEMILADE ONE iPhone There is a thing about the iPhone dream here in 9ja. It is where most roads point to; that direction to the prestigious. Everyone wants to…
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