By Aderomola Adeola, Nigeria: As kids, Tamara would join Ebiere and me on the water banks as we launched our fishhooks into the creek for tilapias. She was the eldest of us three, yet would take instructions from Ebiere to bait the hooks. When we caught fish, she'd exclaim with joy; we would share the tilapias equally or sometimes take […]
2,895 total views, 1 views today
By Aderomola Adeola, Nigeria: Rafts swung across the gentle waters as fishermen prepared their fishhooks. Fishing had not produced much lately due to the increase in oil spillage that was causing the water to stink badly. In the distance, a perfect skyline formed at the point where it appeared the clouds touched the blue sea like humans canoodling in the […]
2,915 total views, no views today
By Aderomola Adeola, Nigeria: She guffawed and said, “You need to leave this heaven forsaken purlieu and come and roll with the big girls.” My mouth discreetly repeated the word: purlieu. How had Ebiere come across that word? I wondered what it meant but did not ask as even her eyes already ridiculed me. She drove around for about thirty […]
3,107 total views, no views today
By Aderomola Adeola, Nigeria: This was how it all started. On a cold Friday even though it was in the middle of a warm August in 2004 as I sat on the wood of our bamboo house and flapped my legs in the water, my childhood friend, Ebiere Ziworitin came to visit. Ebiere was dressed in a yellow gown, one […]
2,970 total views, no views today
By Aderomola Adeola, Nigeria: In the Lagos Metropolitan University that I attended, everyone was a name dropper. To belong to the class of the young, rich and connected, it was either you were from old money, a political bloodline or your father controlled oil money. There were those other names, unknown but with loads of cash and fat bank accounts, […]
3,201 total views, no views today