Who are you, really?
My most prevalent thoughts on this road trip were around identity; the things that inform who others say we are, who we claim to be. In Lokoja, we went up Mount Patti and stood [...]
Author: Uche Okonkwo
Home of Peace
Two heads are better As we proceeded further north toward Maiduguri, I thought about the things that could happen that would make people say: What were you doing in Maiduguri? You don’t like your [...]
‘Nothing Like Government Here’
Leaving Aba, we find that a section of the Aba-Ikot Ekpene Road has become impassable. Ahead of us I see mud-filled craters, into which a few daring SUVs and trucks venture. We are advised [...]
Let us wait and see what the head of this child will bring
Trouble always carries its own stool… We sit in the living room of my father’s house in Asaba. The story he tells, of his experience of the Nigerian Civil War and the Asaba Massacre, [...]
Verbal Snapshots and other Stories
It’s Day 6 and 314 kilometres have brought us to Benin, the first stop on our road trip. I have passed through Benin many times by road, on my way to Port Harcourt or [...]