It was made of fine polished Abura timber and it had a lovely tortoiseshell pick guard. My greatest, my only true possession was my father’s guitar. It’s easy to see the root of his frustration and sadness…but pain is pain. But after three years, my body continued to refuse him children. I tried to give my husband some happiness. They shot People’s Movement members in the streets, they ran them over, dragged them into the swamps. On top of all this, People’s Movement members were getting picked off like flies. In some places, it was always daytime because of the noisy gas flares. The air left your skin dirty and smelled like something preparing to die. Cassava and yam farms yielded less and less each year. A flow station was built nearby and now the stream was rank and filthy, with an oily film that reflected rainbows. There was a stream where I had been fetching water. Drinking the water shriveled women’s wombs and eventually made men urinate blood. The fish, shrimps and crayfish in the creeks were dying. It was how they all controlled their anger and feelings of helplessness. My husband was a drunk, like too many of the members of the Niger Delta People’s Movement. But he was too full of himself to realize I was thinking about killing myself. When I went behind the house, he knew where I was and he knew I was alone. Going out there was the best way to put space between me and him without sending him into further rage. So nobody ever saw or heard him beating me. Our small house was the last in the village, practically in the forest itself. That was how I ended up out there that evening behind our house, just past the bushes, through the tall grass, in front of the pipelines. from Zombie by Fela Kuti, Nigerian musicianĪnd self-proclaimed voice of the voiceless ![]() Zombie no go think, unless you tell am to think Zombie no go turn, unless you tell am to turn Zombie no go stop, unless you tell am to stop Zombie no go go, unless you tell am to go Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
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