Author: Phylix Chika

1. “What would you do if you were made the leader of this land for a day?” I’ve always heard that question go around, and boy have I heard different answers to it. People always talking about how they’d change the economic system or upgrade…

1. “My boy, don’t do this. You don’t have to do this. Come, let us leave before it’s too late!” “Mama, I can’t. You know I can’t! We can’t keep going like this—” “Dede… Don’t leave us now. We’re all we have in this world.…

Let me tell you a story. It might not be so good, but please excuse me. It’s what you asked for, right? I will try to tell it as well as I can. And… It might sound ludicrous, but I swear that it is the…

The reverend walked up to the front door and gave a steady knock. he adjusted his collar and made sure he appeared as prim and as solemn as he could. He would be on his best so he could snag another family flock into his congregation.  Smiling to himself, he thought of how his ’skills’ had been garnering more fame around town.  These people were simple-minded, and any small disturbance was seen as a demonic possession to them. It didn’t hurt that they brought the cases to him, and he could fire up the congregation into tricking them that they were indeed demonic possessions.
Well, not trick per se. 

Shebi I said it that we didn’t have to go down that cave, and yet stupid me agreed with Jide that we truly needed some adventure in our lives. This is why Nigerians don’t do all these hiking trips; there’s too much ‘otherness’ going on…