Franklin A.N.
African, Sierraleonan -Nigerian,Mende Yoruba and Igbo tribe ancestry😊. Short story fiction and non-fiction writer, Essayist, Journal writer blogger and vlogger❤️
Member Since: 3 months ago
JULY
July for me is always the time that I take a deep breath,heave a deep sigh,It's always like my new year starts in July. Old habits die, I loose things, I become more conscious,I become sad,I overthink in July ,I forget myself,I forget reason sometimes,I become angrier in July,in July I force things to happen, I have lots of regrets in July and I appreciate a lot of things in July too. July also for me is when I get distracted by newness and some how it's how I inadvertently leave an old chapter...
The breach of the African child.....
I grew up in a society where I could see the harshness of life. There are different degrees to the harshness that life brings to the average African child. I use the society I grew up in as a standard, it's a society that I could say kills dreams, kills futures. I myself have found myself being pessimistic like those adults I rebuked while growing up when they laughed off my dreams or called it bluff. I was never a believer that dreams don't come true, I had many reasons not to believe but I s...
CHIEBUKA'S MARRIAGE
After 1995 sealed something memorable, something that was going to be forever between Chiebuka and uzoma, life was as beautiful as the skies, the air even sang with them, the butterflies seemed to cheer them on. "So Chiebuka has chosen that woman in-stead of his own mother". This statement seemed like a rhetorical statement but also sounded like a threat. Nneoma couldn't swallow it up that Chiebuka was finally choosing to stand up for himself, it was annoying because this new 22 year old from...
.......to merely exist.
There's this urge just to merely exist, to just wake up and hope you don't feel the lump on your throat,to not wander aimlessly in your mind and create a billion scenarios of what it should have looked like and not what it merely is, and this feeling comes from a knowing of being more. I know millions of African people have scaled through the years in the same vein,by pretending that the real world doesn't exist,by focusing on whats in front of them and not stretching it so much to the extremit...
"AYO, 1955"
"AYO, 1955" 'Ake road ' was home to homeless people. Many homeless people lived there after the time of 'lugard'. Ayo the lame and his brother lived there after their parents passed. It transitioned from being sad about his lame situation to them living for fun. He was the younger of the two brothers. Ayo and Babajide had lived in Ake road all their lives. At 78 years of age, Babajide still cared for his lame brother. He had cared for him all the while all through from childhood. They were...
MBAYASE
After lugard and his brothers left Nigeria alone to be an independent state,these men who had no fingernails and toe nails as achebe would describe something of the sort in his book, There was a movie production by Mr. Mbayase ,after he came home from the British colonies after all his touring in the British colonies ,he came back to Nigeria since Nigeria had gained her independence, he came to apply the much knowledge he had gained over the years from going to school in England to moving from ...
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