`Don’t kill me! Please, please don’t kill me. I’ll do anything you want. Please. My wife! My children!’ I sat up suddenly, breathing heavily. It was the most horrible nightmare I ever had. I was covered in sweat. My wife, Blessing, was holding me, looking frightened. She said, `Ugoo, what …
Not long ago independence was easy to earn. The mighty Soviet Union disintegrated into many countries, some with populations of less than ten million. Later some countries earned it from suffering, persecution and by actually fighting for it. Kosovo is a recent example. East Timor, of a population of about …
I arrived in Zaria during the harmattan season and at first lived with my father in Mala Mala. It was dusty and cold and each year, since I had no shoes and walked barefooted, the soles of my feet were so dry and the skin split during that terrible season. …
The bus had taken twelve and half hours to get to Awka, his home town. It had had to manoeuvre through failed portions of the road, an accident causing a long delay, police check points narrowing the `expressway’ with logs of wood into a single lane and finally the usual …
