Writer: Dike Ogu Chukwumerije
Category: Fiction
“Ehm…falling in love with someone is not very easy to talk about. You know that I’m a hard man. As a hard man, you don’t really expect these things to happen to you. I’m the kind of person who, as a junior, could piss in a senior’s bucket if the senior messed with me. I’m a senior now so I don’t need to piss in anyone’s bucket. In fact, I should be worried about people pissing in mine. But that’s for another day. I don’t want to digress from what I’m trying to tell you…” That’s how Urichindere talks. That’s how the whole story is narrated from start to finish. You will be there. You will see the unbelievable world of the Nigerian boarding school through his eyes. And the dangerous one that was 1990s Lagos, when military rule and civic activism were lighting fires everywhere. You’ll meet colourful characters like Mac Jimmy and Temlong; and fall in love when you get to Amanda. And when things get really bad for Urichindere and his family, when his activist uncle (Uncle Ima) drags them all to the precipice, you too will brace yourself for impact…
