It was the summer of 2009 and Michael Jackson had just died. When my cousin ran breathless to tell me the news, I laughed. I thought, surely this must be a prank. He was not even sick. How was that even possible? But sure enough, Michael Jackson was dead. That should have been a foreboding, …
the sprawl
The bats have gone. Save for a few solitary strangers that drift around from time to time. Stragglers. It made sense that they would leave this suddenly. They had arrived almost as unceremoniously, almost a month ago. A large colony, at least a million strong. We had gone to bed one night and woken up …
Haiku for two
Are you friend or foe? Only one way to know Follow the flow
detoxify me
There is a reason why I am luckless with people. This is ironical because I consciously devoted my lifetime a long time ago to serving people- making sure they were happy healthy and comfortable. It has taken away more than I care to admit from me. I have had to give up more than a …
Letter to a thousand women
This piece has been sitting somewhere collecting dust and cobwebs. I thought to share. Who knows? Somebody may like it. So here goes nothing. It's a fairly long read. I wonder if I am ever Going to stop loving you. If you are surprised Let me apologise For pretending not to care All these days, …
Of children and log-fires
This post was initially intended to go in an entirely different direction but somehow, one thing led to another and here we are. I am from Nigeria- a country some of you may recognize as lying between Benin and Cameroun on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Some may even recognize that at approximately …
Clinic tales: part 2
The shrill chirp of the alarm pierced through the cold and restless night, but the figure shrouded between the sheets hardly stirred. It had taken too long, far too long for the elusive blanket of sleep to settle over his features. The hooting of the night owls, the buzzing of the insects and critters and …
Counting pennies pt. 2
The story started here I have chosen to stay back in the Southwest of Nigeria and take advantage of the supposedly better employment opportunities. I want to save up money and go back abroad to start a residency program, it has not yet worked out so far. I have never made as many applications or …
Counting pennies
I have not exactly been feeling all that chipper for the past three months or so. It is not because I am busy with work or with any other projects. The opposite is in fact the case. I have been out of work for the past two months at least. It feels like two years, …
Conflict gemstones
There are a few things that are peculiar about me. Things that if I do not lay on the table, I become all too easy to misunderstand. In no particular order here they are. First I grew up questioning a lot of things that I was taught. Needless to say, it didn't go down well …
the MD_muse 