When I arrived home... [I] met my mother sitting on the cement slab outside the kitchen door, looking agitated. She said my father had gone out with … - Lola Akande
" "When I arrived home... [I] met my mother sitting on the cement slab outside the kitchen door, looking agitated. She said my father had gone out with Ify because Dayo, my immediate elder brother, wanted to make trouble. She said Dayo was categorical in his rejection of Ify because he was Igbo and had threatened to ensure that the marriage never happened... My mother said there was something disturbing about the way he spoke; she said she detected a level of vehemence that was troublesome... Finally, everybody was home and all hell was let loose. Dayo's vituperations astounded me.
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About Lola Akande
Lola Akande (born 3 October 1965) is a Nigerian academic and fiction writer. She has published three novels and a collection of short stories including the award winning What It Takes, and The Truth about Sadia which is endorsed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
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