Chronycles

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I HAVE ESCAPED DEATH TEN TIMES

One of them promised to use a knife and cut our bodies until we died, but the knife couldn't work on us.

THEY ASKED WHICH OF MY BABIES TO SHOOT

One of them said, “Let us release the mother and hold the boy so that he can work for us.”

THEY ASKED ME TO SAY GOODBYE TO MY PARENTS

I lost my chemist shop; I lost my livestock. Before this, I was handling all my responsibilities.

MY WIVES AND DAUGHTER CAN USE GUNS

We prepare our children and family very well in case of any bandit attack.

ONE BANDIT BEAT MY TEETH UNTIL THEY FELL OUT

I spent five months there and we could spend four to five days without eating anything.

I GO EVERYWHERE WITH MY GUNS, EVEN THE TOILET

Any gun, machete, or iron-related weapon cannot do anything to me.

WE’D HAVE JOINED THE BANDITS IF WE KNEW

One day my Fulani colleagues came and met me with a kolanut as an invitation to gang up.

WE SLEPT ON TOP OF TREES TO AVOID BANDITS

Anywhere you go now, people will start accusing you or stigmatising you as a Fulani man.

‘WE HAVE NO RANSOM, WE ALREADY FORGOT HIM’

So, the only option was to keep praying for him and let them just kill him.

THE SCAM, THE WOUNDS, AND THE FATHER I’M STILL LEARNING TO FORGIVE

THREE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE HOUSING CULTURE IN EVANSTON

THE BIOLOGY OF SHAME

NIGERIAN PUBLIC HOSPITALS ARE THE ABSOLUTE GHETTO

CHURCH WITH NO WORDS: HOW THE DEAF WORSHIP IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

“And on that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book … Isaiah 29:18.”

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