When I was much younger, Baba, as I called my father, told me death could come in many ways. He said death could come as a messiah that could bear one’s cross...
Author - Olalekan Moyosore Lalude
Olalekan Moyosore Lalude is a Nigerian lawyer, essayist and short story writer. He is a currently a doctoral student at the School of Law and Security Studies, Babcock University. He has been published under the name Mark Lekan Lalude in the African Writer, Kalahari Review, WTBP Anthology and Face2Face Africa.
A man at the start of his life wants to be many things. In the end his desires are fashioned by the devices of such a thing as a merciless and ruthless reality...
The year was 1989. You, Samuel Agbayeni, had left the town of X for a place called Lagos. Where you came from, people spoke about Lagos like it were Britain;...