KEMI
Chapter Six “O salutaris Hostia, Quae caeli pandis ostium: Bella premunt hostilia, Da robur, fer auxilium…” On her way from hospital, Kemi had decided to stop at a Catholic Church – St Martin. It was not many poles away from Johnson…
KEMI
Chapter Five Kemi couldn’t stop herself from sobbing. She had nearly killed someone’s child because of her recklessness.“Don’t be too hard on yourself Barrister Kemi. It’s not easy to take this all in.” Mangodo kept…
KEMI
Chapter Four Ivy was a young ‘gentle lady of the night’. No. She wasn’t born into prostitution. She had come to Lagos to stay with an aunt in Ojodu in 2012, just after she sat for her WAEC and NECO exams. After assurances to her ailing…
KEMI
Chapter Three It had been four days since Doctor Mangodo told her she was depressed – Kemi knew many people were depressed, but somehow, she hadn’t actually thought she was one of the many. She had hoped the general disinterestedness would…
“I CAN’T BREATHE”: JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD
“Then the Lord God formed man, of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7). The scriptural text above shows that after creating man, he was nothing but created dust.…
“THERE IS NO SUB-HUMAN HERE”: ‘SQUANTO’
I cannot remember the exact age I was when I saw Squanto. If I were to guess, I think eleven or twelve. I remember seeing it on a local Television channel. We did not have Cable TV back then. I don’t remember the name of most of the characters but I…
BRING BACK OUR INNOCENCE
The little boy sat in Church, looking straight ahead. It was Wednesday, May 27, 1992. He could not understand most of what was said. But he knew he loved the way the priest moved his hands as he celebrated mass. The bright lights on the sanctuary…
KEMI
Chapter Two Mangodo felt the weariness seep into his bones. He was the Medical Doctor assigned to Office D in the Out Patients’ Department of Johnson & Jones Medical Centre. Located at the middle of Luxury Estates, Victoria Island, Lagos, the…
KEMI
Chapter One Kemi woke up with a severe headache. She reached across the bed and swapped her right hand across the bedside stool, hoping to find the culprit that had cut short her sleep. These days she hardly had any. Her brain tried to grasp the events…
DEPRESSED!
I couldn’t quite place it. But something the young lady said caught my attention. I took a few paces back. I needed to be sure she was talking to me. The large hall was empty now, except for the two of us. I had just given a talk on how to handle…