love
The lights came on when all five girls were sitting on the living room floor playing cards. They were all in their underwear and some were fresh from the bath so they…
“Life is like a river, it never flows past a place twice”. I don’t recall much from my childhood. I remember being a very sad child, or so everyone assumed. On the…
What!? “Name your price”. Did this horse face just ask me to be his whore? “Excuse me?” “How’s 5 million?” He’s still talking. “Did she just walk away from me?” I…
The first time I broke a plate, I broke a full cooler of them. The crashing sound of their fall made my head ring like a cymbal or an old alarm clock…
It is always winter for Hannah, sometimes she feels it in her body other times she feels it in her soul. During times when she feels its cold pooling at her feet,…
“Don’t go out in the rain.” Those were her grandmother’s last words. Insignificant as they might seem to an outsider, they were very significant to Bisi. They meant: don’t run into the…
“Your father wants you to take off your uniform, he says you’re following me to the market today”. My mother told me as I knelt with my hands on the buckle of…
I lay sprawled on my bed, staring at my phone screen. Few minutes ago, I received a text message from Tony. I didn’t have to check the sender’s name to know that…
I’ve always been an inquisitive child, taught and learnt how to differentiate right from wrong at an early age. Growing up as an only daughter, I was loved and attended to by…
For as many children who stay in this part of the world, i.e. Africa, a constant verbal profession of love from parents to children is not common. This does not mean that…