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Myself: My Self
What makes me? Physically speaking, I am an interesting collection of descriptions. My wallpaper is a sort of barbecued chocolate. The Northern border is wooly and uncooperative in the foliage, which nicely camouflages a very impressive skull.…
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Myself: My Age
I am twenty-one years old. In the eyes of the law, there’s nothing I can’t do. Except, I heard a radio commercial for Stone Strong Lager (the one brewed from rice, they said) and it’s “For…
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Myself: My Name
I intend to do what every victim of the Ghanaian primary school syllabus has wished to do at some point. Every time we’re forced to write ‘of dark complexion’, against the protest of…
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in Writing
Fragments from ‘Sand’
The contagion of insanity did not shy away from the corridors of power. In a briefing room on the top floor of the Pentagon, the Director of Intelligence paused on his way back to…
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Share a Coke with Aishatu
The Story Welcome, brothers and sisters. I suppose you are all wondering why I have gathered you here. The matter at hand is the story of Aishatu; otherwise titled, Make Me A Woman Today. It was…
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in Writing
Writing: another ‘Sand’ story
(Originally shared as an FB Post on 7th February, 2013.) So I found a couple more stories from the ‘Sand’ comic sci-fi novel I never did write… Fragments from ‘Sand’ A bunch of short passages from this aborted epic.…