They still had one of those old telephones at home. One of those stylish sixties versions with the dial wheel. It was black and important looking sitting on...
Author - 'Namdi Awa-Kalu
I am a law student at the London School of Economics, but I grew up in Lagos and have missed Nigeria for every one of the six years I have been away. I try to communicate this sense of displacement and relocation in all my work at present. I write for a generation not unwelcome abroad but nonetheless missing parts of the spirit that are forever entangled with home.
How all the other passions fleet to air, As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love, Be moderate;...
The first time I saw Shankey he was illuminated in a shaft of lightning. It had been raining for hours on end- brilliant London weather- and we were standing...
