It was evening when I reached Mazi Kenem’s house. Dada had asked me to return a basket borrowed from the older man during the New Yam festival. It was an old basket; most of the raffia used to weave it was damaged. The evening breeze and cloudy skies painted a vague but hopeful imagery in … Continue reading Diary of a Village Boy: The Leopard Spirit 2 (Mazi Kenem & Spirit Animal)