SAVAGE NATION
This story is based on a true event. Dedicated to the four University of Port-Harcourt students killed in a small community in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria in western Africa Thief, thief, thief…. It sounded like the screams of a local market woman in one of those Nigerian home videos. Thief, thief, ole….. Yes, that’s the exact sound. It was that of a woman only it’s not coming from any sound system, neither am I in a theatre; this was real, there was a woman shouting thieves in a manner that calls out the entire community and worst still she was shouting it at me. Thief, thief, ole, ole….. O my God! What is happening here, I can now hear other voices calling out the neighbourhood and “No” this was not funny, not even in the slightest possible way. I turned to my friends there were four of us, we were not sure what to do, how to react or who to turn to – for we were being called thieves in a community where we best past as strangers and confusion was set...