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TISHA CHAPTER 30 – BID YOU WELL
Bisi may be in love with a beast but I love her, I know. It’s wrong, and heaven knows I tried my best to control my feelings. If I am discovered, I could repeat a whole year because if the practice period is cancelled, I’d have to take the year again. Read More
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TISHA CHAPTER 29 – ALAS
The following day, I wake up to prayers in the house and a splitting headache. After the morning devotions, during which I expected prayers to be made for Bisi, but was not, I decide to get on this journey on my own. As long as I have a bed to sleep in Pastor’s house, he has done enough for me. Read More
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TISHA CHAPTER 28 – BISI
We arrive my block at a quarter after five. My bones are weary, and I am drained of any motivation. The block I deserted and I wonder at how much could have happened in such a short period of time. How life and death has changed everything.
Pastor magnanimously wait for me to pack my bags. Read More -
TISHA CHAPTER 27 – FIGHTING TEMPTERS
If not for Pastor’s presence, I would not see Bisi. Despite that, we are moved from one location to the other until we are asked to wait. The wait ends up for two hours. I plead with Pastor to leave but he refuses. We’ve both not slept in almost twenty hours but he doesn’t complain. Read More
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TISHA CHAPTER 26 – DAMAGE CONTROL
I stand back and watch Bisi’s pliant hands put in handcuffs. I can’t believe she admits it. Kenny’s words are highly implicating. If this is true, she has a murder case, and an attempted murder to answer to. Murder in Nigeria is punishable by death. Read More
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TISHA CHAPTER 25 – AN EYE FOR A LIFE
It takes so little a time to drift from life to death, consciousness to unconsciousness. I doze, and startle awake to some commotion. I look around and see everyone is alert as well.
Kenny jumps down from the bucket of a police van, wild and sweating copiously. Read More -
TISHA CHAPTER 24 – NO CONTROL
After the traumatic call to the zonal coordinator of the NYSC, Mr. Akande and Mr. Ojo sat on the ground and waited with us.
I move to where the principal sat. I need to hear this. Has Bisi been here before? Why was nothing ever done? The love of my life, I am more concerned for her safety now. Read More -
TISHA CHAPTER 23 – DAMAGE
Beyond words and expression, I just stare out into the surrounding darkness. Bisi continues to sob and I find nowhere in my heart to console her. Five men rape a twenty year old girl and force a seventeen year old to watch. Nothing can be more brutal. There is no law. No order. Read More
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TISHA CHAPTER 22 – MADNESS
There’s commotion everywhere. The pastor of the Pentecostal church has a rickety car, and at Iya Elemu’s joint the car is parked with all the doors open.
I rush to the car, hoping Toro is already inside, hoping she’s not dead. But Toro is not inside the car. Steve is, covered in blood. Read More -
TISHA CHAPTER 18 – ALUTA QUARTERS
Gradually, everything settles around me. The youth corpers catch their fun by going to Ife or the palm-wine joint in Abagboro, which I found amusing, because I never knew it existed. When I’m in the mood to have a refreshing, relaxing evening, I follow them. Read More
