There is an Igbo saying that a cow that belongs to the public or village as a whole usually dies of hunger. The simple reason is be that each person will expect the other person to feed the cow and as a result the cow goes hungry. That adage fits …
Man’s inhumanity to man! In the Middle East, the cauldron of hate from Biblical times, we are daily being shown that man’s capacity for wickedness, brutality is limitless. A whole nation called Syria is being razed to the ground and humanity is helpless to intervene. The final act of the …
His real name was V. C. Brown but students had nicknamed him V. C. Bobus. He was a blond, tall and fat bachelor usually dressed in white short-sleeve shirt on khaki shorts. He taught us Latin and was generally disliked by the students. I simply did not like Latin and …
I used to play tennis. Well, sort of! When I learnt to play the game I was in secondary school in Zaria. Then we called the racquets bats. Bats were simply shaped from slabs of wood into things that resembled oversized table tennis bats with longer handles. So my tennis …
I was just under fifteen when I resumed in St Paul’s Secondary School, Zaria, in January 1954. There was a class ahead of us of less than twenty five pupils. In our class we were less than thirty. The Principal was a CMS missionary called Reverend Freeman who promptly issued …
