Under African Skies by Charles Larson

Author:Charles Larson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

Just as Gladys had feared, her friend was not in town. It would seem her powerful boyfriend had wangled for her a flight to Libreville to shop. So her neighbors thought, anyway.

“Great!” said Nwankwo as they drove away. “She will come back on an arms plane loaded with shoes, wigs, pants, bras, cosmetics, and what have you, which she will then sell and make thousands of pounds. You girls are really at war, aren’t you?”

She said nothing and he thought he had got through at last to her. Then suddenly she said, “That is what you men want us to do.”

“Well,” he said, “here is one man who doesn’t want you to do that. Do you remember that girl in khaki jeans who searched me without mercy at the checkpoint?”

She began to laugh.

“That is the girl I want you to become again. Do you remember her? No wig. I don’t even think she had any earrings …”

“Ah, na lie-o. I had earrings.”

“All right. But you know what I mean.”

“That time done pass. Now everybody want survival. They call it number six. You put your number six; I put my number six. Everything all right.”

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