Hey Nigeria May 1, 2009

 chapter 15:         It seems like a decade, but it has only been a year. This is my second year in exile . Every minute seems like an hour, every day seems like a month, and every month seems like a year. Being here away from my homeland village is stressful. I am not going to lie, even though I was thrown out they had a reason too. But I am also having a great time in Mbanta, I have accomodated to this different environment,but I’ve learned the hard way. I miss my old friends.

      Talking about old friends Obierka my very good friend from the village payed me a visit, and i was so gratefull to see him.  I had a huge smile on my face when I saw him,I don’t recall having these kind of emotions before, so I hid my smile as quick as possible. He came happ too,but he had some bad tragic news about the village of Abame . To be honest I was concerned about the following words that were going to come out of his mouth.  He said really slowly with a sad voice that only made me anxious. He started his story very normal and slow

    “One day a white man rode into the village on a bicycle, which the villagers called an “iron horse.” At first, the people ran away from the man, but the ones who were less fearful walked up to him and touched his white skin. The elders of Abame consulted their Oracle, which told them that the white man would destroy their clan, and others were on their way, coming like locusts. Confronting the villagers, the white man seemed only to repeat a word like “Mbaino,” perhaps the name of the village he was looking for. They killed the white man and tied his bicycle to their sacred tree.”

      This wasn’t as bad as I thought I mean don’t get me wrong the fact that they killed that white man without having any kind of information about him did get to my nerves. But then he continued his story by saying that another group of men gathered around in the village,and after they saw the bike they shot, and killed the entire village,and that now Abame was destroyed. This was shocking, I was speechless. It was here yesterday and gone today. It was akward that he mentiond “white natives” the only thing that came out to my head were those sayings I mean were those the so called collectors of slaves and the ones who were taking slaves over seas?????

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