A Telephone Conversation

- Hello Kongi

- Hello!...Man of The People

- How is Ishara?

- Fine…but I’m in Ake

- Is it time for Kongi’s Harvest?

- Ah!...things are No Longer At Ease o!

- Since when is this?

- …Since The Man Died

- So Things Fell Apart?

- It is now a Climate of Fear and Deceptive Silence of Stolen Voices

- So what is The Trouble With Nigeria?

- It is that of Madmen and Specialists who are hell bent on Beatification of Area Boy(s)

- Ah Wole! …that’s scary. So tell me How The Leopard Got His Claws?

- Oh Chinua!...you pretend that you don’t know that it is with help of King Baabu, using The ‘attack’ Lion and The Jewel of his bedroom.

- Pity!...There Was A Country…

- Yes, when we had Man of The People

- Is this An Image of Africa or …Another Africa?

- Of Africa…of course! It is the curse of The Blackman and The Veil. It is all for Salutation to The Gut.

- What is it I hear about the Girls At War with Chi(bui)ke and The River(s)?

- Yes, we are back to the Penkelemes Years.

- What are his Hopes and Impediments?

- Well, we expect another Trial of Brother Jero

- Where will you fight from this time around, Home or Exile?

- I am pitching camp in Idanre, right in The Forest of Thousand Daemons. So I Must Set Forth At Down before I get Caught In a Red Tape between Death and The King’s Horsemen.

- Hmmm…You remind me of the days we hanged around The Anthills of The Savannah.

- Yes, …the good old days with plenty From Zia With Love. Burden of Memory

- Thank you my friend, Otolorin the Oluaye of African Literature himself!

- Haba Maazi!...we all know that you are the great eagle on the great Iroko on the great hill himself… (click)

(…MTN network fails…)


By Emehelu Nnamdi