General Gnassingbe Etienné Eyadema has been in power in Togo longer than Amba my Mermaid has been in the world. This year, 1996, Eyadema is the longest-ruling...
Author - Akin Adesokan
Currently working on his PhD in New York, Adesokan has received several awards, including the 1998 PEN Center USA West Freedom To Write award, the first Villa Aurora Writer-In-Exile Award and a fellowship at the International House of Writers in Austria. Also a winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prose Prize, Adesokan was a visiting scholar at the University of California, LA. A writer, journalist, critic, columnist and author of Roots in the Sky and Sea of Forgetting, Adesokan was imprisoned for several months by the infamous Abacha regime that took the pauperization and looting of Nigeria to the max.
TWO SUMMERS I Last summer, every summer, The coastal capital washed in crowds of fun. La copaine* oiled skin with sun Spread her legs to francs and customer...
