Nebuchadnezzar Has Returned

Obele still didn’t utter a word. He used the whole of the might he could summon to keep his inner self from exploding, and speaking ill against The King who’s right-accusation kept resounding in his inner mind. “You may rise.” The King…

All friends walked out in silence. The King had put a knife in the high spirit and sweet optimism with which they had arrived the palace earlier on. “Obele put this on himself… Who goes to the palace and tries and argues with the Igwe?”…

Just like animals running to the altar for a slaughter, they came running; with fists clenched tightly and minds ready to desecrate the flesh of whoever had done ill to their friend. Unfortunately, all they saw was Nnanna, standing with…

In the loud wake of the night’s early entrance, the escaping sun gives way to the proud emergence of the full moon. The remnant ray of the parting sun mixed with the somewhat bright shine of the night’s heavenly body seemed to rest in…