Oluwadunsin D. Sanya

You place the bucket beneath the sink and watch as the dirty water drains off it, doing to to to as it trickles slowly into the bucket. Above the sink, you wash the plates, turning the bottle – in which you had poured a little quantity of Klin and two cups full of water – upside down and pressing its content into your sponge. After wiping the plates clean, you rinse them again and again until you feel the cris cris of clean plates. You then leave your kitchen and walk into the sitting room, usin

You grew up building blocks and bricks. At first, they were coloured blocks that you arranged to form a car, or a house. You built a mosque, a church, a hall and sometimes, just a windowless room. Your mama teased you that you will grow up to be a bricklayer cos you were so good at clipping one toy brick to the other until the house had a strong foundation and even stronger walls.

It was when you got to primary 5 that you stopped making shapes with coloured plastic bricks and started erecting r