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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

A creative work based on the events surrounding the release of 21 Chibok girls by the government of Nigeria.  

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.