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The death of his father opened a can of worms
Both his parents were of the Biafran babies’ saga
His aunties suddenly were no longer his
Cousins who had things in common with him suddenly
seemed like strangers
Everyone acted as if all were still normal
But he couldn’t help the feeling of being out of
place
He was just like a common foreigner
Like the loud Nigerians next door
His journalist instinct was on the alert; he wouldn’t
let this pass
Slept little, researched more until he came across
a man with answers for people like him
Off he went to the most populous black nation
clutching the answers he had discovered
His now strange family oblivious of the journey
into uncertainty
As his plane lands in the city known for her coal
A tight knot develops in his belly
His palms sweats, his heart flutters with fear and
excitement
He looks around this new place, supposedly his
origin
It was dreadfully quiet; the people spoke in lowly
tunes
They were unlike his loud foreign neighbours at
Port Gentil
He forces his legs to move; the uncertainties must
not stop him
He was not there for acceptance
His journey was the making of a lifetime story
A story that was sure to take him up the ladder at
La Lowe Newspaper
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