In early 2002, i traveled to Ghana for the first time. I had met Boniface, a yellow short guy from Anambra state at a burial ceremony. We got talking about business and he told me that he imports Nkatie Burger from Accra. The burger was small peanuts with one grain of groundnut inside each nut.[...]

”Is Azubuike Inside’ i heard from Papa Chinwe.”Yes, is everything alright” replied my brother.”Everything is alright, i just want to discuss a few thing with him”. Papa Chnnwe said. My brother asked him to Come inside the flat and offered him a seat in the palour.I ran to my room when i heard my brother[...]

”A virgin” i managed to repeat whatshe said. I could not understand thenext thing to do. I just managed toconjure a weak smile from my drymouth.” What about you and George” iasked. The expression on her facechanged. George was a handsome quiet guy who played in the same football team with me in Onitsha. He[...]

May 27, Enugu Nigeria: The plan was that we will return back to Onitsha that same day but things changed. I remember May 27 2001 was a rainy Sunday. We had visited the Zoo, the Emene Airport and some other interesting tourist places. We had eaten at the emily resturant where a plate of semo[...]

The Cotonou trips continued. Sometimes we sold our cars at Ladipo market in Lagos and head back to Cotonou. Sometimes we crossed through Seme borders while going to Cotonou but we used the Idiroko border for crossing the vehicles.I returned home one Christmas and was invited by the richest man in our community. He told[...]