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It became known to me, during my early years at Nigeria’s infamous International School, Ibadan (I.S.I) that I was a writer. My first three publications came under the name "T.G Suprinkus." They were published in the year book (I.S.I Microcosm?), I forget which year. Perhaps ‘86-87.
From the reaction of the whole school I knew I had a gift. I must give credit to a specific teacher who edited those stories and encouraged me to express my thoughts boldly (though I used an alias, still). I believe his name was Mr. Yariga. I’m sure it still is. I hope that’s his name. I just remember his big nose, bushy moustache, and warm smile.
Next, with my literary clique--Tayo Giwa,Tokunbo Falashe and Wale Akinyele--we came up with an alternate magazine to I.S.I’s traditional satire magazine, BONG. Our version, three copies painstakingly hand-copied over carbon paper, was easily funnier but got me in trouble. People would crowd round the tables in the cafeteria and fall-out laughing as one of the students would read our stories out loud. Silas Ajayi, the Principal, was furious and hunted us down.
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Ganja Ekeh, 1999
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- Flight 109
"Good evening, this is your captain speaking. ..... After a refueling stop there, our destination, Syria, will be only three hours away." "What?!" "What?!" The passengers began to mumble and grumble, some began shouting. Flight 109 was scheduled to go to Rome so what was this pilot talking about Syria?
"Abeg stop dis plane make I comot here!" the lady next to me suggested, "I go walk back go airport." It would have been rather odd to drop her off there since we had been flying for almost thirty minutes already, and over water,more Flight 109
- The Bloody Battle of Form 3D
As though to spite me, he was made class captain of Mr. Ibeagha's class and was assigned the task of writing down the names of noise-makers when Ibeagha was not in class.
Now he had real power! Within weeks, low-intensity guerilla warfare had started. My clique slowly begun to abandon me, even my tightest pallies, after writing a couple of boring chapters of Nelkon and Ababio--that darned physics book.
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- Teargas And Blood
"Aya e e e aya! Aya e e e aya! Aya we don
come o, aya, pata pata we go win today o,aya!"... Didn't care what he was saying, as long as this riot meant school would be closed and I wouldn't have to take my exams (of which they were just two weeks away). I can't say it was all my fault that I was not ready. I mean, with teachers like Mr. Abiku who said things like: "If I cash di student who is chooking my daughtah, I wi ki dem.more on the Teargas and Blood
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