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Philip Ebuluofor

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Correct Hats On Correct Heads

Philip Ebuluofor

He stood just about three meters away from the man's table and had been standing for about three minutes without being fully acknowledged. The only acknowledgement he have received from the man since he entered was a furtive glance in the direction of the sound that came as greeting. Shaking of the head in his direction and full attention returning to whatever it was he was drafting.  The whole students of the community secondary school Iji numbering about eight-fifty knew that mood like back of their hands. It have became a culture a...

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Where Heaven Lift People From

Philip Ebuluofor

 He couldn’t pinpoint when the turning point happened in his life, how could he? it had been about eight years and never gradual since that incident that took him inside the state detention center and made that center the turning center of his life. He had been what some refer to here as Journey Johnny Worker. Phrase attached to those people that sleep and wake up, eat and left the house for work that has no particular base or form. Everything goes kind of people with everything goes kind of skill needed for all manner of works people...

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Bang And Bam

Philip Ebuluofor

 The pathway that led into the Uku village in Amafor town in early’70s would not accommodate two bicycles coming from opposite direction. Too tiny. During rainy seasons overgrown brushes from both side of the road made it almost impassable for anyone carrying anything wider than his or her shoulders. In that nest rest two love birds by names Julie and Clifford.  A tale of magnet and nail. Both the apple and pie of each others eyes and maybe something more like narrators of this century will deliver it if asked to do so. In each o...

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Too Many Uprooting

Philip Ebuluofor

Mr. Tony, the source of the grapevine news among his fellow staff of the sanitation department of the Oji local government area. The people are known for the moniker the public gave them after the civil war that has stuck since then. ‘The two-faced guys' Fifty percent of them from the daylight road sweeping team, well clothed in matching uniforms in daylights sweeping the roads double as night soil men in the cover of darkness. At their own health risk, some women, as warned by the local government leaders, are even allowed to work am...

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The Whys Of Indecent Proposals

Philip Ebuluofor

I was sitting in my small corner in the department when this girl matched in fuming. I sat there watching her and she sat in anger turning the pages of the book in her front with anger in such a way that still surprises today on how those pages remained in tact. I was determine not to be the person that opened my mouth first. About five minutes later, she asked me: “is this not how to write capital Y?” I was little taken aback by the question. Instead of answering the question, I focused on her face to know if something else is going on. I m...

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Soliloquy Gone Sour

Philip Ebuluofor

It's rainy season not the dry one so, tales by the moonlight at the village squares in Africa are off until the next dry season.   These tales that comes in the nights after the days work are usually told at the village squares by the elders when clans or villages are not staging one singing, quasi fashion shows or wrestling competitions. That’s the life Africans live in our interior villages. Yes, there is fashion and beauty shows even before colonial masters came in our little known way. Young Women paint faces with local dye f...

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Early Morning Hustlers

Philip Ebuluofor

“Thinking that way won't lead anywhere. The earlier he knows that, the better for all” “How does he suppose to think that will lead to somewhere?” “ What’s the matter?- are you for his good or are you playing games?” “ Games are for the losers. Do I look like one to you?” “ How do losers look?” “ They look like my uncle we are talking about. That is what few I know look like. Isn’t that funny?- how those guys looks alike? Cash crop dealers” “ No, it’s not funny. What I sounds funny since talking with you is your attitude toward helping your ...

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Mighty Education In The Heart Of Guangzhou Spring Season

Philip Ebuluofor

“You have to show me the shop you are talking about. I have never been to that area before” “You will not miss it. Just tell the taxi driver or cyclist where you are going and they will stop you in front of the market” “So, there is a market behind that gigantic building?” “For sure, big one. I never knew until that my Chinese friend took me there two weeks ago” “They sell all manners of beauty products and all those love products like flowers you are after” My friend Uche has this way of talking that makes you to laugh most of the time....

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The Village Book fair

Philip Ebuluofor

“Do you hear that? According to the record, there are about one billion books in existence in the world”  “ Who was keeping the record?” “How do you mean who is keeping the records?- don’t you believe it?” “my question is simple. Who is recording all these books in existence, are these ones included?” “White people keep records you know?” “ No one is white people and no organization is white people. Which organization or someone keeping the records?” “Well, I have forgotten the name of the company mentioned and their web address. T...

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Mutiny Spirit Rewarded

Philip Ebuluofor

It was so terribly cold, snow was falling and it was almost dark. And the inmates have not eaten their evening meal and officer sheng was working them to the bones against regulations. It’s against regulation to jump queue in Lanty international prison. But nowadays, rules and regulations seems to have gone with the wind which is never in short supply in the semi dessert that the prison was built on. The district officers and the central management seems to have became helpless with their shortcomings that it is showing clearly on their la...

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Just To Be Sure

Philip Ebuluofor

“So, what is the catch?” “Why did you always worry about the negative in everything?- start first and when you cruise past the catch, you will not realize” “ It is always intelligent to know what one is getting himself/herself into. It is called wisdom or looking after one’s ground. It never hurts to know one’s enemy from day one” “ Yeah, I understand where you are coming from but this has become part and parcel of your entire way of living. Do you know this is the third time you have asked the same question today alone?” “That shows I must ...

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Foreigners In Foreign Land

Philip Ebuluofor

“I suspect that most are not just ordinary cats i mean, this one is over fat, over overfed, over strong, over cat. You need to see it in action” “ How can cat be strong enough to chase two three years old dogs away?- I don’t believe you. This is the exactly exaggeration” “ Exaggera… what?- I am telling you what I witnessed firsthand and you are doubting?” “ I heard that the cat is big from Anthony but the part about chasing two dogs and people away, this is my first time of hearing that part” “ Oh! I see. You believe Anthony's part without d...

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State Of The Nation

Philip Ebuluofor

“How do you mean by that?” “Not how do I mean, never me?. I tell you what they said is the route they are on now in this madness” “But why are people so dumb to this extent, even if you are a kid, you can tell A from B in the situation of this nature?” “Who will be the one hearing that your A from B eh? Do you think those saying that nonsense and those hearing them don’t know that all are bullshit?- they all know but knowing doesn’t favor them or able to put food on their table in the manner they have been corrupted since this guy came o...

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When Reality Is Just The Opposite

Philip Ebuluofor

Self-respect is what most people don’t have and don’t know how to acquire looking at things and events these days. Nothing beats self-confidence in most people's opinion. That is the route, the key to many locked doors and even open ones. But many think that the route is turning oneself into a rich man's dog that kowtows nonstop to influential people. Why some don’t even know that those influential people, most have grounded wisdom while others are just baboons, floaters. That is what Mrs. Aaron never knew. Maybe according to some, pretend...

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Capital Connection Cold War In Texas

Philip Ebuluofor

“Houston, we have a problem. Houston, Houston, this is Waterloo calling. Is someone there? Over.” That rant, is a kind of jingle in its own right especially to kids born before the ‘70s in Houston and Waterloo Texas and today, all over US. It became so popular that every kid of ‘60s the in Texas knows how to recite it with accuracy and rhythm that beats the hick out of Christmas carols and jingles there. “Houston, Houston this is Waterloo calling, over” It was the era of fieldwork with the enormous benefits that comes from it then....

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