ONE of the legacies that apartheid gave to Africa is the canon known to the literary world today as protest literature or literature of pains. This was an imaginative response by different strata of South African writers community to the challenges of race politics that was practiced by the ruling dominant white minority in the hey days of apartheid.

Quotable quote: I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended – Nelson Mandela

THE South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela (1918-) helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights.

THEN she asked me what happened. Sobbing, I narrated the dream. She, too, started to weep and made a promise. “With the help of Almighty God and our forebears, we shall pay your fees, son. Don’t worry.

AFTER feasting on the meal, she asked me to go home. I ran from the shed, hopping and skipping along. On the way home, I joined some boys playing street football (soccer), ensuring, however, that I got home before she did. Aunt came home that evening and announced to all that I had been admitted to GovernmentCollege, Ughelli.

LIKE an old train couch, the year 2013 in a jerky swing but consistent style of each closing season of a year draws to a close.

BEHIND these were the white enamel toilets, where you pulled on a chain to flush after use and water came tumbling down to clean it out.

I FIRST came across the phrase a ‘Huge Construction Site’ in November 1999 during a tour of Germany sponsored by the government of that country.

SHORTLY after the move, I received a letter through my elementary school that I was invited to Government College Ughelli for “a short list examination and interview.”

It was an opportunity and they grabbed it with both hands.
The aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, (G-7) wanted a reason to dump their party and they were handed one by no other person than President Goodluck Jonathan himself.
And although some of the seven governors explained that they all knew that Jonathan was not prepared to meet with them and resolve the issues that gave rise to the crisis, given his body language and the sustained acts of impunity arising from the party leadership, they waited for the appropriate time.