They say the Area Boys are a law unto themselves. They say they are a pack of illiterate feral kids who’d slit your throat in a heartbeat for a bag of candy...
Author - Tony Ogunlowo
Tony Ogunlowo is a London-based writer and author of fifteen books spanning poetry collections, plays, short-story collections, novels and novellas. As a prolific columnist his articles are syndicated throughout Nigeria and the rest of the world, published on blogs, print newspapers and magazines and websites. His short stories and flash fiction have been broadcast over the BBC and Smooth 98.1 FM #thetalesatnightime and his pidgin English poetry is studied as part of the Nigerian Open University English Literature course EN214.
This is rotten! I present my own late night radio show: some nights it can be fun; others can be boring – but tonight was going to be hell! I couldn’t believe...
There had been another sighting of a mami-wata, mermaid to you and me, somewhere in the Cross Rivers State. The social media sites were going crazy with...
I normally come home late at night these days. A change in my circumstances has brought about a change in my habits. My wife is home, too, and despite the late...
It’s ironic that a witch should live on Church Street. I mean, the two words ‘witch’ and ‘church’ were complete opposites; one representing good, the...
I’m still unemployed. It’s been two years, seven months and four hours since I last worked. Disgraceful? I have a degree in Finance and an MBA and I...
They tell us we are going to walk until we drop. They mean it. The hot desert is unforgiving on the feeble and the weak. Like a predator, it waits until its...