"'I count it as nothing,' he told sympathizers, his eyes on the rope he was tying. 'What is egg-rasher? Did I depend o…"

"Na tief-man and him people”"

"Police-o! Thieves-o! Neighbours-o! Police-o! We are lost! We are dead! Neighbours, are you asleep? Wake up! Police-o!”"

"Jonathan Iwegbu counted himself extra-ordinarily lucky.""

"He had come out of the war with five inestimable blessings--his head, his wife Maria's head and the heads of three ou…"

"That night he buried it in the little clearing in the bush where the dead of the camp, including his own youngest son…"

"Of courses the doors and windows were missing and five sheets off the roof. But what was that?"

"As the weeks lengthened and still nobody could say what was what Jonathan discontinued his weekly visits altogether a…"

"He had to be extra careful because he had seen a man a couple of days earlier collapse into near-madness in an instan…"

"My frien... we don try our best for call dem but I tink say dem all done sleep-o... So wetin we go do now? Sometaim y…"