Íbo ni lé?
(Where is home?)
Home is green.
Rainforests and rivers.
Marshland and molluscs.
Vare is hungry and tired. She arrives by noon as instructed but Aunty Sade says to “wait a bit”. By 1pm, Aunty Sade tells her she is going on her lunch break. By 2pm, the Manager is in another meeting.
Aunty Sade, the office secretary, hands Vare one nylon bag containing a Viju Apple drink and Jollof rice in a takeaway pack.
“Erm, ma, we are ten IT students.”
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Ivory-towered
Bustling, vast
Àmàlà-girded
Dauntless, ancient
Agboolé-clad
Vendor’s stand is sandwiched on the patch of untarred land space that lies right in…