Flash Zongo Memoir: Romantic De-Escalation

We were not long out of high school when Karl was nearly lynched. The rainy season was in rear view, harmattan winds were in the offing, the days seemed longer and by the time migratory birds flew west under a cloudless sky at sunset, about half a dozen boys with a lot of time would...

Flash Zongo Fiction: You don’t look like a Zongo boy

Wait what’s your name again? Abubakar? You don’t look like a Zongo boy koraa. Unpacking the many levels on which this was ignorant seemed liked an arduous task. One which Abubakar had spent a lifetime performing in varying ways. The first time was in primary school where topping the class was too strange a thing...

Flash Zongo Fiction: We Are Not In Makranta

Analogies and Similes rely on precision. They utilize what we confidently know and understand to draw parallels with what we might know but not appreciate sufficiently. So when in the famous movie, Forrest Gump, it was said that life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get, we were being...

Flash Zongo Fiction: Ina lorinka?

Ahmad had boarded a trotro to Danquah Circle, walked to the bus stop at Koala before taking a Bloombar bound taxi. It was actually a loading taxi headed towards that end of the Oxford Street. Upon getting to the exit of this street, he would add an extra cedi or two and plead with the...

Flash Zongo Fiction: Sarkin Gadama

#FlashZongoFiction 2: Sarkin Gadama In kuka bude google, na win shei gadama ya kare. Shei sa ku manta da google mu yi gadama True to his words, a Google search would have vindicated him. No one remembers exactly what the argument, no banter, was really about. It is so easy to forget what oddly seems...

#FlashZongoFiction: Herh Yaro, Mei Kache

The weedy path heading back to campus passed through a small farmland etched out in an urban space. It was one of those farms that spontaneously sprouted up on lands which seemed ownerless. Ownerless until a developer began to prospect and the red colored words KEEP OFF LAND NOT FOR SALE were painted on a...