Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - For Fearless Fang: a Boy and His Pets—Nonfiction by Ikhide Ikheloa—Eclectica Magazine v17n3

"The deer in my neighborhood know that I would love them to fall dead on my big barbecue grill out in the yard. They avoid our house like the plague. One day, my white neighbors asked me why deer avoided my flowering plants. I told them how in my youth, this tribe of monkeys was always bothering my father's vegetable garden until we caught two and had rice and stew with plenty of monkey meat. They hurried off and never came back—the neighbors, I mean. It was not true, of course; we only caught one scrawny monkey, and getting meat out of the sucker was like raiding a starved crab. I have not seen the neighbors and their two dogs ever since. We don't eat dogs where I come from. We are civilized people.". _Ikhide


Yes, I really had a good and wonderful laugh with this essay. Oga Ikhide can write, make we admit right away. That alone should allow us accept all his canterkerous critic stuff and too-know sometimes on this forum. Well, for me, that makes him a good critic all the same and takes away the sting of being a mere critic poaching on the creative efforts of those who can really storm the creative fortress.

Ikhide, it will be a real service to Naija literature if you can package these writings for us posterity. I no dey talk about about your yab-yab critical reviews of those hapless writers o. I mean the ones wey you write yourself about your oyinbo and naija experiences. The last one I read on this forum was the telephone conversation with Papilolo. Ah! That is writing!

Well done!


Adeshina Afolayan
*Returning for a re-read with anticipation of laughter...and thought.

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - For Fearless Fang: a Boy and His Pets—Nonfiction by Ikhide Ikheloa—Eclectica Magazine v17n3

In which my tales return to Eclectica magazine - For Fearless Fang: A boy and his pets...

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