This is a work of fiction.
When we were done, my mother put them in a cabinet in Uncle Ayinde’s study where she had found them, locked them with a key and put the key in her purse. As I helped my mother lock up Uncle Ayinde’s house, the secret…

The weekend after the incident they learned that four other houses in the area had been raided, and in one of them a man was shot and was in critical condition at the university teaching hospital. The children’s mother was nervous and uneasy and nagged their father until he…

The word chaos took on another meaning and dimension of its own. It became clear the extent the fuel crisis had reached when the familiar danfo buses were a rare sight, as most of them ran on petrol that had become a precious commodity in town. The only form…