Novels by Olayinka Michael

Bobo lagos room was tastefully furnished. It had every appliance a social bachelor woulddesire to have. A big colored TV set was placed at the corner of the room on a big glass shelf, on theshelf was a video player and a big bass stereo with its speakers on both sides of the shelf. The room waslavishly rugged with a thick and fluffy blue rug and a four-piece settee to match. A master size bedmattress was kept at the corner of the room. It was neatly laid with a white bedspread with blue stripes.There was a creamed colored curtain with blue flowers adding more effect of coolness to the room. Thewall was filled with posters of half-naked women and heavily built tattooed men. Adara squeezed herface for she disliked them a sea view adored with flowers would have been preferable, she thought. Sheshivered slightly as the breeze that came from the air-conditioner penetrated her skin. A large standingfan was also blowin

Adara embarked on her journey to lagos with eagerness. She felt scared at first with the speedat which the vehicle was going but then relaxed after a while. After paying the bus fare of four hundrednaira, she had a sum of one hundred and fifty naira on her. She wondered if that amount would get herto her final destination. She hoped it would and decided to take her mind off it and enjoy her journeywhile it lasted. Adara loved the sightseeing. The cool breeze also felt heavenly. She began to count thenumber of lovely cars one of which she would love to have in the future. Soon, she lost count, and thendozed off. The cool breeze was appealing. She smiled to herself and shifted into a more comfortableposition as she drifted totally into sleep. She slept all through the way.Adara woke up when the bus stopped for some passengers to alight at a bus stop called berger.The bus the resumed its journey to Oshodi lagos whe

“Yeh! Yeh! Yeh!” were the words that brought Adara back from her reverie. She then realizedshe has been sitting on the big stone for a while and the sun was scorching hot. She looked at her bigtoe and saw it had stopped bleeding. She then sighed and hope nothing evil would come her way. “Yeh!Yeh! Yeh!” the words came again. She jumped up as it dawned on her it was her mum`s voice. Adararaced in, on getting inside, she found her mum sprawled on the floor, complaining of stomach pains.In despair, she thought of what she could do for she suspected the pains was due to hunger forthey hadn`t had any meal that day and she wandered all morning seeking for her usual odd jobs but gotnone. Out of fear, Adara, who had never seen her mother in such pains, went out and sought for thehelp of her neighbors. She eventually was able to get help from a neighbor popularly known as bobo

On a bright sunny afternoon, she sat forlorn on a huge large stone in front of rickety oldapartment she shared with her despairing mother in sabo, a rural area in Ogbomosho, a town in oyostate. Tears escaped from her beautiful eyeballs as she tried to stop the blood which was gushing out ofthe big toe of her left foot. She had hit it against a stone on her way back home. She wasn’t cryingbecause of the pain from the cut but, for the fear of an evil that was likely to occur. The thought offacing yet another hazard despite the ones she had been through within the eight years of her existencescared her out of her wits.Adara was born on the twenty-fifth of December 1983, at the Baptist hospital Ogbomosho. Thearrival of the baby brought peace and joy to the five years marriage of Anike and debo owosetan. Shewas christened on the first of January 1984 and people made merry, dined and wined to the fullest.