Glissade

But these precautions didn’t stop Ekene from dying in his sleep.

Sizwe winced, almost as if the woman’s words had struck him. In some ways, they had. But, instead of causing him physical pain, they opened wounds he had been trying hard to stitch…

I believed, for once, that God wasn’t responsible for anything.

The sun burns brightest on the morning after a night-time rainstorm. That Thursday in June, when my partner and I awoke to find our Surulere apartment windows washed clean by rain, with the glass slats sparkling in the sunlight and the floor tiles as dry as an ark’s insides, we decided to celebrate our good …

You are becoming a version of a person okay with the passing of a father.

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