(The following is a narration of true events that took place in the wee hours between 27th and 28th March, 2016.)
27th March, 2016.
Lagos, 10.22pm.
I kept my gaze on my smartphone, waiting for the Airtel network to convert the little spiral lines into a green tick, and send my message across hundreds of kilometres to the heart of the East. It was a late Easter message to Ugochi, with the extra gloss of “I’ve missed you a lot” and “I really want you around”. I didn’t have faith in achieving any kind of positive outcome with those words, but I had nothing to lose by typing them out either.
Chi's Epistles 