"A mob wielding cudgels and cutlasses is hot on the heels of a youthwho desperately crosses to the other side of the r…"

"The students, who should have been busy taking theirbaths and getting set for lectures, sat idly...discussing the boy…"

"More than once ourtaxi was forced to hug the kerb as siren blaring military jeepspassed at top speed...”"

"There had been an accident. Bola’s family-father, mother, and twosisters had been in a car crash. It was late in the …"

"Look out there, see the long queue of cars waiting for fuel. Someof them have been there for three days...And we are …"

"The houses were old and craggy and lichened. The place had theunfinished, abandoned appearance of an under waterscape…"

"We don finally reach the end of the road. We don dey together since I was born, but now time don come wey me and you …"

"Hagar takes to prostitution whenrejection and hunger look her straight in the face"

"Look, we are living under siege. Their very presence on our streetsand in the government house instead of the barrack…"

"Nostalgia settled on my shoulders like the arm of a long-lost friend, urging me to look back and listen; it had been …"