There was a pervasive atmosphere of fear in the neighborhood; that feeling of ‘who knows whose turn it is to die’? There has been a strange illness resulting in deaths that rather appear difficult to accept. A couple of people in the same household have been involved in some instances. What is frightening is the
While growing up, I always loved listening to adult conversation. You can see them laughing, making gestures and sometimes speaking in low tones. My sister and I would sit down in between our aunts while they conversed, listening to them, although most of the time we had no idea what was being discussed.. If
The Children’s Emergency Room (CHER) was a house of commotion in my training days in the Medical School in the early 1980s. Measles was in town and was reigning practically unchallenged. Babies at different disease stages of measles were in attendance. George Orwell told us that all animals are equal but some are more
My sister often told a story she couldn’t shake off her mind because of how it impacted her growing years. The story goes thus: ”I had this junior colleague back in Secondary School. She was fondly called Ada by her parents, a nickname for the first daughter of a family where we come from. Well,