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“The hot slap of her rebellion was heightened by the gulf in the social positions of the two men from whom her bloodline sprang.”
“The scattering of the Wariboko war-canoe clan started with Princewill, the youngest son of Chadwick.”
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“As for Monima, the last male descendant of Tekena, first of her name, he moved across the country to Lagos at his sisters’ urging, to escape the curse that was wiping out Wariboko heirs.”
“He, too, had returned from foreign lands after the colonials handed over, but his arrival soon caused a shock wave of chatter from the villagers who caught him partying in the nearby city of Port Harcourt.”
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“He lives in Nigeria.”
“Article continues after advertisement The father was Chief Wariboko, a cocked-hat marauder who was dreaded in bygone times by the mainland villages he raided for slaves—the trade on which he’d built his wealth at home and earned his reputation abroad.”
“Such fraudulence bore only poisoned fruit, swelling overseas bank accounts for the Manchurian candidates who were seeding duplicity into the loam of their nation’s imagination.”
“Jamabo’s first child and only son, Monima, had been born in his parents’ village in 1948, and a few months later, he and his mother, Dakoru, traveled to join her much older husband in his new workplace in wintry Chicago.”
“Almost a century after the overthrow of the goddess Akaso and her kinfolk of local deities by the arrival of white missionaries, their disciples were stepping up to root out what was left.”
“The darling daughter who wounded his pride in his octogenarian years was called Tekena, first of her name.”
“Jamabo traveled for school and work, and then returned to seek refuge as a stranger in his own home, his poisoned country.”
“The child’s name was Jamabo Wariboko, the stranger who took refuge .”