Episode 1 He was running as fast as his legs could carry him, the house was just ahead. He could see the lights of the house, the curtains were drawn, and the inhabitants of the house were probably asleep, unaware of the terror about to be visited on them. He was able to …
Episode 2 What did you say?” the voice exclaimed. Both Khadijat and Damilola’s mother turned and saw Khadijat’s mother, standing on the stair landing and gaping at them. She had obviously heard all that her daughter was saying to Damilola’s mother. Damilola’s mother: “Neighbor, take it easy. It is only pregnancy, nobody died” …
Episode 3 Halima was the child nobody wanted their child to associate with. She was a Muslim, but she had gotten out of control of her parents. Her father was an Alhaji who was more concerned with making money than whether his daughter was walking in the path of Islam. Her mother had a …
Episode 4 Halima: “What do you mean you cannot?” she asked, turning around abruptly, twirling her long Brazilian weave. Khadijat: “The prodding with metal objects, inside me. I am practically still a virgin, I did it just once. There is no way that metal will enter my body without destroying something” she cried. …
Episode 5 Khadijat: “Father” she said, fear had paralyzed her so much that her words came out as a whisper, even though she was screaming with fear in her heart. The man standing before her was carrying her father’s face, but it was like she could not recognize him. His eyes were …
Episode 6 She screamed and tried to run to the other side. But, it was a little too late, as a car slammed into her and flung her to the other side of the road. She fell on the rain washed tar road, and soon, it became dark. The shouts and screams from witnesses, …
Episode 7 The old woman who had saved Khadijat was called Madam Lagos in her vicinity because, her son was in Lagos and was doing well. Everyone knew Madam Lagos as a kind hearted woman of substance. She had lived all her life in Oshogbo, serving in the civil service. Now she was retired …
Episode 8 Things never remained the same for the Imam’s family. When he heard that his daughter had died a horrible death, he felt the weight of how his lack of understanding had pushed his daughter to her death. He began to remember Khadijat for what she was before the whole pregnancy …
Episode 9 Madam Lagos named the child, Dayo and took care of the child, like a grandmother would do. When Dayo was a year old, she threw the biggest party in Oshogbo and even invited her son and his family. Her son, Gberan and his wife, Bella, just had a baby boy too, who …
Episode 10 One day, Dayo was sitting all alone in the kitchen, he had tears in his eyes because, there was no doubt that his mother, Bella didn’t love him. His father was always away from the house, and he was feeling abandoned. Cassandra had come visiting with her mother, Halima, and when …
Episode 11 Dayo refused to eat or drink, until he was told about his roots. He locked himself up in his room and refused seeing anyone, unless they were ready to tell him the truth. Dayo: “You lied to me, dad. I never thought you would ever lie. Anyways, you are not my …
Episode 12 Ken: “Mother, I am talking to you” he said stomping his feet, and shoving his mother. Bella shoved him away angrily, for he was disturbing her train of thoughts. Ken cried the more and ran out of his parents’ room. Bella shook her head at his tantrums, she couldn’t understand why …
Episode 13 Damilola and his wife Tania looked at each other awkwardly. Tania wondered if Dayo was Gberan’s love child. She thought herself the better woman because, even though she did not give her husband any children, at the least, he didn’t have a love child outside, or did he? She peered into …
Episode 14 Dayo had a reprieve when Gberan announced the next day that he was on his annual leave, and would be spending it with his family. He cooked delicious meals for them in the kitchen, while Dayo helped out. Dayo was the son Gberan wished for, the boy was inquisitive, and wanted …
Episode 15 Damilola woke up suddenly, not by the alarm clock, but the shrill noise of his phone, someone was calling and he wanted to ignore that person, but the ringing was incessant. He crossed his hand over his sleeping wife to the dresser, and collected the buzzing phone. Damilola: “Hello mother” he …
Episode 16 When they got to the block of flats where Khadijat lived, the driver was the first out of the car, this was his opportunity to get the full gist and still get paid for time wasted. There was a crowd in front of the house, and he could see the Imam being …
Episode 17 She was crying. Her eyes were puffy from the crying she had done since Bella broke the news to her. She didn’t trust her so called friend’s intentions, but it didn’t change the fact that what she said was true. So that adorable boy was Damilola’s son, she pondered. …
Episode 18 Bella: “Oko mi, I just got off the phone with Tania, she is asking for Dayo to come and stay with them a few days or a week. I pity her, she is such a lonely woman” Gberan: “I wanted to spend time with Dayo oh” he grimaced. Bella: “Gberan, you …
Episode 19 Tania was especially doting, with Dayo, she kept telling herself that if things had been different, she would have loved Dayo for real. Damilola took the opportunity to take Dayo to the bank to set up a scholarship fund for him accessible to him only when he got admission into any higher …
Episode 20 Dayo: “Sure, but I miss my home, I miss daddy Gberan and mummy Bella and even Ken” he replied in his normal chirpy tone. Damilola: ‘But why do you call your parents that way, especially your dad?” he asked curiously, he wondered if perhaps the boy was not told that Gberan …
