I am spending a little time in my home country. That is what we like to do, us Africans, spend the holiday with family. It looks a little as though we want to be sure we know where and how the families are doing. The ones that stay away do indeed stay away. But we are all here, most of us from last year. I do not want this to become a ritual. Christmas with efo riro is a better option than this yellow fried rice with strange peas. It is hot in here and I have missed the thermostat...

"Your undoing blooms like cancer"
Eroding at the core
Tugging at the seeds and razing the roots
Déraciné
"The axe forgets but the tree remembers..."