(Rume is seated on a chair, reading a book when Vwede enters the room, dressed in a pink knee-length flowered gown.)  Vwede: Sister Rume, see me. (Rume drops her book and she starts walking stylishly from one end of the room.) Rume: (Smiling) Nice. This your dress is fine ooo. So, you really want to … Continue reading Coro Wahala (17) →

Rume is talking with her friends, Chidinma and Fareedat, on Skype. She had borrowed her dad's laptop as hers kept acting up. Her cousins kept going in and out of the room, banging the door. She turns to one of them, Jato, angrily.) Rume: If any of you enters this room again, I swear, I … Continue reading Coro Wahala (16) →

Two days later...... (Rume is in the kitchen with her mother, doing the dishes. She is not happy that she still gets to do the dishes. She is complaining to her mother.) Rume: Mummy, this is not fair at all. It's not!  Aghogho: (smiling) Well, life is not fair, my dear.  Rume: I know you … Continue reading Coro Wahala (15) →

(Everyone in the house woke up to the fight of Mama Segun and her husband.)Mama Segun: Tọba, mo ni were ni ẹ. Kilo fẹ se? (Tọba, I said you're a mad man. What do you want to do?) Shebi it's beat you know how to beat, beat me naaa. Beat me! I will keep telling … Continue reading Coro Wahala (14) →

(It's Sunday morning and everyone is running around, getting ready for church. Footsteps are heard from every part of the house. In the spare room given to them, Obaro and his wife, Ese, are in an argument.)Ese: (Seated at the edge of the bed) So, we're going back to Warri? Is that what he said? Obaro: … Continue reading Coro Wahala (13) →