A day out with the remains of the Prostate
It is a five-minute walk up the street to the station. To push the bowel out of the way of…
Foot dragging daddy
Danger week had come and gone without mishap, phew, but another soon loomed and Ade would rather have his teeth…
Miraculous Conviction
Shortly after T, our grandchild, was born I told his parents that I bet someone would ask Mau and I…
From “What’s Bibi Doing” (notes to a grandson)
Dear T. That Sunday night when you kept dropping crayons from your high chair, leaned back past your mum, to…
A day out (From “What’s Bibi Doing”); notes to my grandson and the rest when they come
It is a five-minute walk up the street to the station. To push the bowel out of the way of…
Musa the Blind Lovemaker of Lagos Bar Beach
Musa The Blind Lovemaker By Sola Odemuyiwa Tammy Wynette came on the radio. ‘Rashidi, how many times I go…
Magba meets a fake fake Sheikh
Extract from The man who slept with the devil Kam Salem House, Lagos, stands behind latticed perimeter walls within earshot…
Why do babies cry
I’ve been doing some research on why babies cry, but none of the usual teleological, evolutionary explanations sound that convincing,…
Why I write and The Man who Slept with the Devil
I once tweeted that I wrote to shock and delight and distract myself from Newcastle United’s plight. That was not…
South Roko, a land of make belief in “The Line in the Sand.”
In The Line in the Sand, South Roko is an imaginary island off the coast of West Africa. I created…