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Weekly Contest #55
I had seen enough examples of people not taking charge of their lives that I, at one point imagined it impossible to do so. That was until I met Zainab. It was hot that day, near midday. I had not eaten that morning, caught up in a rush to beat Lagos traffic. I had promised to always appear on time in the workplace and I was not going to allow Lagos traffic to make me a promise breaker. The other reason was that I did not want to lose my job. The feeling of unemployment is not something enjoyable, especially when a man is down to his last c...
Weekly Contest #51
Ma always said the future was written in the stars. That is why we looked at the stars often, but today was special. The tribe's shaman was gazing at the stars for the elders who were singing praises to the divine. It was the night of the hunt: the coming of age ceremony in the tribe and I was coming of age, a little over 14 summers. We were nervous, the lot of us coming of age. It was the culmination of our learning and a proof of our potential. It was a simple fact that the better one performed in the hunt, the better the person's place i...
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