Chika Esiobu PhD
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The Prophet's Tooth

The first, as they say, is happenstance. Schaffer’s second grandbaby, born to another of his children, exhibited the same anatomical deficiency at birth. The baby moved the post further; he was born blind in one eye and deaf in one ear, at exactly the side of the face where Schaffer had savagely extracted the Tooth that bedeviled night.

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One Kind Lagos Bus Ride

“Madam, the man should stay by the window,” he said.

I pretended as if I did not hear him and looked the other way, holding the rickety door, waiting patiently for him to enter.

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Between a Life and a Briefcase (II)

The first call Bonja received the morning after he returned from France came from his only surviving sibling’s spouse.

​“Brother,” she had begun in a voice that sounded terrified, “my husband is very sick.” She concluded the last statement with a low wailing sound. Bonja asked her to calm down and tell him what happened.

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Between a Life and a Briefcase (I)

Bonja looked at his watch and noted that the representative from Triang Square should be in his office in five minutes. He thought of sending a quick text to his latest mistress, but immediately decided against it. She had a habit of calling him each time he texted her.

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Being Me, Leah Sharibu

A work of creative non-fiction derived from what is known about the experiences of Ms. Leah Sharibu, a 15 year old girl kidnapped alongside other schoolgirls by a faction of Boko Haram in Dapchi, in northern Nigeria.

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Deep Inside Sambisa Forest

A work of creative nonfiction based on the night of April 15, 2014, when armed men suspected to belong to the Boko Haram terrorist group abducted several female students from a Federal Government Secondary School in Borno state, Nigeria.

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