There was so much Dike wanted which made his heart pound hard often, which made
In your first coming, you are a miracle. You are the result of your mother’s
1. This is what people say of memories: they slip away with time. They disintegrate.
SCENE ONE A well-furnished living room is revealed. There is a centre table on which
ONEIt was absurd, he thought, walking home that evening. Coming from a bar, he had
‘You’re too clean to be a writer,’ she said to me, half smiling, half cross-examining
The first thing a River Boy knows is that he does not know until he
There is always that something in your head, like the one Dr Obierika’s son had
When we are not in the room listeningTo Mama’s teary roar at our father,Or his
(For my Grandfather)There is tenderness in eating from the same platterwith someone other people kiss