I will look you in the eyes, so I can see how sad they are I will listen to your loud, empty opinion with a smile, And wonder if you knew how insubstantial your words are? I will watch you make all the expensive mistakes I will not be riled up from your mindless, shallow talk I have nothing to learn from you When next I see you, I will not hate you too, I…

‘Nsukka people’ call it Egbugba. Egbugbashi. I attended the same university with a girl, I spent almost five years in that school, it was a very small campus, I think I must have passed by her countless times without seeing her. How do you explain my shock this morning when I saw the new profile picture she uploaded to Facebook? Beneath the makeup, behind the smile, it was there. So glaring. How ugly a person…

There is something about the first time you go to a place; it takes too long and you notice the little details. They say our lives are being steered by a supreme hand. They say we do not have control over most things that happen to us. I remember that day so well; the little details, I know I will remember forever. I can’t tell you my name; my father is well known in the…