Glissade

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

If Nigeria ever happened to anyone, it happened to John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (1935—2020).

She said he was quiet when her husband gave up his job at Dinah and followed another woman home.

And when Father was furious, the entire house suffered. He banged and shouted.

A child’s need to be chased, to hide and be found time and again, is why my father is the ghost stalking my dreams. When I was a child, hunting for where to hide and wait for my friends to seek, I found, inside an abandoned yard with an unfinished building, a hole in the …

I was aware of the ostracism and persecution that atheism invites in a hyper-religious country like Nigeria.

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