The Bead Collector

The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, The Quiet American and Our Man in Havana. Wole Soyinka’s Idanre was next.

“The idea of unity preoccupies us here in Nigeria.”

I could walk around our house naked, and he wouldn’t notice. The moment I started to do a domestic chore, I was irresistible.

. Perhaps that was why peace was unattainable. The inability of men to define what it meant to win or lose.