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more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | MORE HASTE ...the marital trials of Brother Segun... DEDICATION Dedicated to my loving wife, AbolanleAbigael, who had to wait seven years for our firstborn, IniOluwanimi, to come, and by extension, to all waiting mothers. EPIGRAPH Sun, Very Soon You waited till you are worn When will you Pampers your newborn Night may ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The atmosphere dripped with emotion. Even Sola, the 13-year old, caught the current. Her eyes, fixated on the mother-son scene, were saturated with the tear-gland fluid ready to trickle down any moment. Mrs. Toriola had succeeded in infecting every occupant of the sitting room with emotive germ. Segun contracted the en... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'But Mummy, I'm confused. He said he was not my father. Here you are saying I should forgive him being my father. Would there be smoke without fire? Would Daddy...' the first time in many days his heart and mouth would reconcile to call Mr. Toriola Daddy, 'have said it if nothing broods at the back of his mind? Mummy, ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Segun squeezed his eyes shut as if remembering something. CHAPTER ONE He woke with a start. He rubbed his eyes severally just to be sure he had left the realm of dreams. It was a cool night, one of the equable nights of the rains towards the tail-end of April. He was bedraggled in the water mass soaked up the centre of... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | He had seen three men knocked at a door. Someone inside unlatched the door. Before he could keep the door ajar and peep to ascertain who the visitors were, they burst in. And the next thing he would see: a man bearing striking resemblance to him. He was sure they were not one and the same person. The man, in his mid-30... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | A woman heavy with pregnancy, who looked like the first victim's wife, fearfully trotted out of the house where she seemed to have been confined by the bosses with knives. On seeing her husband's lifeless and decapitated mass of flesh in a pool of blood she gave a long shriek of terror, and passed out. |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | That was the scene that unfolded last in the nightmare before Segun was brought back to reality. Presently, he jumped out of bed and made for his cell phone. The bed was terribly unmade and the sheet unusually rumpled; the centre of the bed was slowly recovering from its saggy mission. Ordinarily, Segun would straightw... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | He punched in Pastor Tunji's number and depressed SEND button. Before it could ring at the other end another thought ran through his mind. Why disturb Pastor at these wee hours? Can't he wait till the dawn breaks? He cut off the almost connecting call, knelt by his bed and began a violent supplication. One clause stood... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Hold on,' Pastor Tunji said as he made for the door. Though a bit ruffled at the early morning caller, something struck a chord in the stranger's voice. When the knock first came he was fast asleep. The persistence in the knock woke him and with sleepy eyes he asked who it was. The fellow's 'It's me, Pastor,' a semi-a... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'I am covered,' he muttered as he held the handle of the Union lock. He lifted the door a bit by the handle and with the other hand turned the key in the lock anticlockwise in three complete revs. He pressed the stiff knob arc down and pulled the wooden door open. Standing at the door was ... 'Brother Segun!' the Pasto... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Sorry for disturbing you so early, sir.' 'Ah-ah, it's no bother at all!' Tunji closed the door behind them and they settled down. With all the gory details, Segun recounted the dreadful dream he had in the night breaking into dawn at the moment. When Tunji had swallowed whole the details, he gave a deep sigh and sank ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'You see, I'm yet to get any interpretation to the dream from God. Really surprised I didn't have even the slightest insight into it. But not to worry we will keep on praying. No evil plan of the wicked shall prosper over your life in Jesus' name!' 'Amen!' 'I cancel any plot from the pit of hell in the mighty name of J... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The atmosphere was tense between the father and his son. They were both alone in the sitting room; though poised for a tête-à-tête nobody was saying anything at the moment. It appeared the present scene was in the aftermath of a previous conversation that never went cosy. The eyes of the elderly one was bloodshot; brow... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Then it was the turn of Segun to speak. He slowly lifted up his head and with much pains explained to his father why he would not, with his own means, support the marriage to a second wife. In Segun's words, 'It's unfair sharing love with a woman all the while only to now go hunting for another all because she's wizene... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | As if the word 'faith' was the cue for his line, Segun's father blew hot once again. He would not have Segun lecture him on how to be a Christian – after all, he had been one while Segun was still a twinkle in their eyes. The argument dragged on and the paterfamilias became more violent with words. Has the aspiring mat... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Do I blame you? The parable of the elders is true indeed; if a home is at peace it's simply because the inside bastard has not yet come of age. Pshaw!' He gave a sustained hiss like the snake and walked away from the father-son meeting. The purpose of the meeting is defeated already, what is he still waiting for anywa... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | He headed for the door of his room. His son's repeated calls of 'Daddy' behind him sounded way lower than a whisper in the way he ignored them. He entered his room and slammed the door with a bang so resonating the whole building felt it. Segun gaped in horror and his bottom stayed glued to his seat for the next severa... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | A lot happened in the relationship over the past two weeks which shook it right to the foundation. The obstacle race they now ran started on the day of their formal wedding introduction. In this part of the world, wedding introduction is the first formal meeting of the families of the intending couples. It is a time of... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Segun and Kemi's introduction programme looked like every other from the start and everything went well until it was the turn of Segun's father to address the gathering. Allowing the father of the future groom to speak seemed the gravest mistake made at the function. His words unloosed the nuts keeping back jaws from d... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | With a jerk Baba Kemi stood to go. 'When a man prayed not to see shame but eventually got disgraced in a proportion he least bargained for, his prayer would automatically change gear, "Lord, spare my life!"' he thought to himself. With a rare show of confidence he walked out of the shame. Segun, with sharp reflexes lik... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | That was two weeks ago. The couple had since been raising high-power emissaries of elders and family relations upon another to pacify Mr. Oluwole Atidade. So far their pleas had all proved abortive. Oluwole would not even want to set his eyes on Segun. Of late, however, another peace-making delegation was organized and... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | One then could understand the restlessness and fidget when Segun discovered Kemi was at the door. He opened the door with enthusiasm but shrank when Kemi's face greeted him. The look on her needed no service of an interpreter to decipher. It is fish as the old Yoruba metaphor would say. He muttered welcome and silently... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Her thought had travelled far ahead of days and months to the end of the year, the time they fixed for their marriage ceremony. December 23 was fast becoming a mirage, a hope that was not to be. She had remembered the prayers and planning they had invested into it. The invitation cards were with the printer. All her da... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Though a difficult time for our relationship,' began Segun, 'I would want to reassure you of my love.' He re-adjusted and faced her. It was then he noticed her wet face, he pulled a white handkerchief out from his trousers and offered it to mob the tear-soaked face. She collected it and intermittently wiped her tears ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Your love in my heart is no ordinary love, it is divine. My sense of physical attraction wouldn't have picked your kind of a woman but for God who chose you for me and convinced me about it with abundance of proofs. That was why I could even propose to you in the first place. And thank God you gave in to my proposal b... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'And as for this,' he got his tongue back, 'that has come our way; let me borrow the word from the mouth of Pastor Ashimolowo to describe it: it's just an ordinary circumstance. Circumstance, according to him has its original meaning to be 'this circle I'm standing in.' And when you find yourself standing in a circle i... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | '... I still love you and I do with the whole of my heart.' The last statement brought sparkle to Kemi's eyes and she plugged her hands into Segun's now outstretched hands. In reassurance of commitment to their love they held on to each other's hands for a minute longer. Had they not resolved not to hold more than hand... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Five months after, the delegation-sending continued, yet the issue remained a hard nut to crack. The mountain the wedding introduction raised remained insurmountable. Segun's once strong and dogged determination waned. Those words of his that would make any lady as happy as a lark for having a man who would always stan... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Hebrews 10:36 Imaginary or real? He rubbed his eyes vigorously with his knuckles. The handwriting on the wall still stared him in the face. After a minute or two the vision cleared in the same unusual style it came. On recovering from the wonderment, Segun wasted no time in springing up and reaching for his black leath... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | CHAPTER THREE The characteristic strong antiseptic smell of the hospital greeted the slim-built, dark complexioned figure approaching it. Diseases! Diseases! Diseases! What on earth are they here for? No sooner a man bearing with vim and vigour contract diseases than he becomes as weak as to requiring the support of hi... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | It seems the greater the advance in medical breakthrough the more the number of diseases discovered. And when these predators seemed to have exhausted the employment of human source to strike, they then began assemblage plants for their products in the animal kingdom. AIDS reigned so much for years until it becomes a p... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Now, the slim man awaited the doctor for the result of the test. Doctors! How enviable a prestige the name carries. Their knowledge seems boundless – they must have a name for every condition, even if the grandiloquent medical jargon would have to confuse the patient further. The result of the test eventually came and ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Your pr-i-vate p-a-r-t, sir. It will not affect...' 'God forbid! Over my dead body will you do that!' Mr. Toriola was terribly shaken. He was on his toes almost banging on the Doctor's desk in both frustration and resentment. A person bursting into the consulting room at the moment would mistake Adewale's charge for a... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'But, Mr. Toriola, nobody is talking about being impotent here. You will still be active sexually after the operation,' the Doctor explained. Despite many pleas and persuasions from many quarters, Mr. Toriola refused to succumb to pressure to undergo the operation. 'I'll rather die a complete man than live a male pawpa... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Great Nigeria building is one of the many storey buildings around mortuary roundabout housing almost always a church on each of their floors. The proliferation of churches around the area, one of the bustling centres of the rocky town, made it to receive a whimsical christening: Sanctuary roundabout. On Sunday mornings... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Pastor Tunji's congregation were responding to the praises with strong excitement in the air; one of their best praise-worship leaders was on the microphone. Sister Ayoolape, popularly called AY by her numerous fans and admirers, knew how to hold the congregation in ecstasies. She held great sway with her sonorous voic... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The space in the front, between the pulpit and the pew, was filled with adventurous dancers who felt the legroom at their seats was too strait for the Davidic dance to freely express their joy and thanksgiving to the creator. Others, less adventurous, found a space in the aisle to dig it. The spaces in-between the blue... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | After about twenty-five minutes, the praise session came to an end to usher in the worship session which was not in any way less eventful. Some sank deep on their knees to pay homage to the Giver of life while some others lifted up their hands and heads in His colossal awe. Patches of worshippers here and there grimace... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | But for two very peculiar testimonies which marked a heavy presence during the testimony time the service would have gone on uneventful from the point forward. |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | A brother that introduced himself by eight names at a go had come out to give a medical testimony – actually, that was the nomenclature commentators passed on it at the end of the day's service, during the fellowship-after-fellowship. The octopus-of-a-name brother used almost every clause in his testimony to display, i... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The response of alleluia was deafening and that with a thundering applause for a job well done in thrilling the audience by the way of intricate show-off. He came down from the platform and walked back to his seat with an air of importance around him. A couple of people around his seat even shook hands with him. For th... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Another gave a unique testimony of how he had swarm of mosquitoes around his head for days. He had tried everything to drive them away but failed. The solution came when he combined the effect of the prayer of one of the ministers for him with a spray of Baygon. This time around the reaction from the congregation was r... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The time for the message finally came and everything suddenly changed. The solemnity of and the reverence for the moment can be felt in the atmosphere, both in depth and in thickness. The General Overseer of Jesus My Lord Ministries, Pastor TunjiAdetiloye, grabbed the wireless microphone laid, for his personal use, on ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'It is a mad world!' the GO bellowed over the state-of-the-art mega sound system. His audience looked at one another in a knowing way, as if saying, 'Did we not say something is wrong with the Pastor?' Unruffled by the sympathetic look and the low murmurs, Tunji continued with the atypical sermon preached without an in... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'I know you might have wondered what has come upon your Pastor. Yes, the way I turned my head around in silence was unusual and in fact absurd. And many thoughts would have run through your mind as my gaze travelled from one end to the other. But listen to me, nothing is wrong with me. I am in complete control of mysel... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'I felt the Holy Spirit was just making a general comment on the body of Christ. I thought it was only a message for Christendom in its entirety. But, he cautioned and told me not to go too far; He was talking to me about this congregation staring me in the face right now. And this is how He put it: "many are they amon... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | He went on his knees and, with great emotion and troubling of the spirit, pleaded with his congregation, 'Please, my dearly beloved, make no haste! Our God is not slack concerning his promises; wait for Him. He will make all things beautiful for you in His time. Don't outrun God. I beseech you by the mercies of God, do... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Aboye bo sise o!' the bald old herbalist replied the voice greeting him from outside. Baba Awo was busy consulting his oracle consisting of some kernels on a wide cane dish. He himself, garbed in immaculate white wrapper tied over his right shoulder and a complementing white singlet as the top, sat on a local mat with... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Regular, Baba!' 'Then you may proceed to come in.' Mr. Toriola entered, undid his shoes at the foot of the door – only the sole of his feet, and not that of his shoes, could touch the sacred mat or else he commits a sacrilege. He took a bow to the ground in form of an ablution to the gods at the red corner and then sa... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Dewale, you have the solution already. Just dab at the floor and impress its peace upon your heart thrice,' the octogenarian said with a thickly accented dialect. After observing the figurative instruction literally, Adewale was charged exorbitantly for the treatment. He agreed to the terms and paid a deposit of more ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | CHAPTER FOUR As fate would have it, AY and Segun met one-to-one, on two occasions, within a week. The first was in the evening of that peculiar service. Pastor Tunji had announced there would be no evening house fellowship at the centres. He charged all and sundry to use the hours meant for the fellowship they had now ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | In the evening, she was on her way to Segun's residence, the house fellowship centre for those living around Onikoko. Both surprise and doubt gripped her as the blue, one-storey building started coming to view. The time was quarter past five, they should be fifteen minutes into the meeting now, but no sign of any ongoi... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Her bewilderment deepened when even Brother Segun's face wore a look of astonishment on sighting her. 'What's the problem? No house fellowship today?' she retorted. 'Good evening Sister AY. Nice seeing you around.' Segun attempted breaking the tension. 'Ah! Ah! Please pardon my poor sense of courtesy, Brother Segun. Go... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | AY quickly changed her approach knowing quite alright that she had missed something in the morning announcement. 'I'm sorry. I was busy during announcement. Was it announced that there would be no fellowship today?' she asked pitifully. 'Yes, we were to use the time for personal evangelism in our neighbourhood. In fact... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'No, not so soon. Not until I have treated you to light refreshment with soft drink. And if you wouldn't mind we could then go out together for the witnessing. At least, the Bible too said he sent them out two by two.' Though they both laughed over the witty allusion, she tried to put up a feigned resistance to the int... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Sister AY, I'm sorry this is all I could offer o. You know this is a chronic bachelor's place. But really, if not for my pot that was on holiday I would have made you a lump-less pounded yam as smooth as the earlobe, with good Amaranthus soup garnished here and there with powerful balls of egusi, and a big fresh catfi... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'You try me. Just enroll me in this year's National Maggi Cooking Competition and see how I will defeat chefs from Mr. Biggs, Tantalizer, Sweet Sensation, Mama Cass, just name it. You go know say khaki no be leather. I was not my Mummy's special assistant in kitchen matters in those days for nothing. I bet, with due re... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'No! who has the time to spare on flattery. I mean every word of it. You are a rear gem to the church. May God continue to increase you to bless our generation the more.' 'Amen !' She responded laughingly. 'I mean I was really, really, really blessed by the ministration.' AY was all giggles till she finished the light ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The second encounter was an offshoot of the first and was as coincidental as the first. In their course of seeking out souls to bring the Good News to, AY had informed Segun of her upcoming birthday on Friday and wanted him to be her guest. She was only marking it and not celebrating it, she had stressed. Segun should ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Friday is here. Segun put on his best shirt – a light blue packaged shirt sent to him by his cousin abroad. He was proud of the top because of its Marks and Spencer label. With a pair of navy blue plain designer trousers, well-buffed, black, narrow-toe shoes and a black Versace belt, he completed the dressing. He conte... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The popular track of Tope Alabi, a Yoruba Gospel music performer nonpareil, charged the atmosphere of the mini-hall from the background, as the items on the birthday programme were happily carried out with a romp. The generator of the music was the Ore ti o Common album disc turning in the CD player of a 3500-watt Shar... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'The brevity of the chronological mensuration cannot accommodate the longevity of the provisioned thingamabob for the programme...' 'Eh-eh, oyinbo poju!' one lady ejaculated from the audience. 'Please, sir, can you help us break it down? Abeg, no give us migraine, dear professor emeritus!' another, a brother, requested... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Thank you, thank you. Don't mention it. What are enemies for!' His ironic use of 'enemies' caused another fit of giggles to permeate the audience. 'The basket has been passed round and you must have picked something. Now if I point at you, just walk up here and tell us what is inside the piece of paper you picked.' He... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Whaoh! That is phantasmaglorious! Hold on, please hold on DJ. None of us should be left out in this networking. This is what we are going to do. Get someone beside you and you too can interact with him or her for those two minutes. No dancing in your own case however.' He turned to Segun and AY who were now standing t... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | It was time to continue where they stopped on Sunday evening as they rocked lazily to the music. When it all ended the two minutes seemed two seconds. Segun craved for more. * * * * * Segun got to his door but could not put the key in the lock. He bent to the peephole and discovered another key hanging in the lock from... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | She noticed Segun was not showing interest. It was taking him unnecessarily long pulling off his shoes. He was bent double to the task and would not even lift as much as his eyes when she mentioned 'good news'. 'Brother Segun!' she tapped him on the back, 'it seems you are not even interested in what I'm saying. You ar... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Amen. He will. But you know God's time is the best. He makes all things beautiful in His time and ours shall not be an exception. God will help us. Let's just hold on to Him till the end.' Segun concluded the dialogue with, 'It is well.' Somebody else is beginning to steal Segun's heart. A real-life osmosis is taking ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 3 – 2 = 1 heart praying 4 u. 1 + 1 = 2 eyes looking at u. 3 + 4 = 7 days thinking of u. 7 + 5 = 12 months asking God to protect and bless u, because u're special! How is ur day? The Lord is ur muscle. Shalom. |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Segun finished punching in the short message and was about sending it when he caught sight of the figure 269/2 at the top right hand corner of his Nokia 1100's LCD. That suggested the message had spilled over to the second page, meaning an additional cost. Segun, a shrewd and thrifty SMS-sender, could not tolerate it. ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | He keyed in AY's number offhand – no need of going through the search option in the terminal equipment's phonebook. OK. In about twelve seconds the screen read, 'Message sent', and ten more seconds, 'Delivered to AY' flashed on and off the display unit. AY flashed back to acknowledge the receipt of the text. Segun's ga... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Terminating a call while still ringing, before the called could pick it up, had become a cheap form of sending warm but dumb greetings and acknowledgment to friends and loved ones. The verb 'flash' was whimsically coined out for this special service maybe because of the speed involved. The flasher must be on the red al... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | An extended use of the flashing technique plays out when the younger intend sending the older a free electronic SOS which could be equivalent to a telegram message that sounds like: please call me. Segun flashed a smile and then withdrew to his sofa to reminiscent on the series of happenstance, as the Americans will sa... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'My peace seemed a bit withdrawn about it. But does it really matter? Time can take care of that.' 'You are treading on a dangerous path, Segun, you are!' 'Allow me please!' and with that he ended the conversation with his conscience. His mother, Mama Sola, came visiting two hours later. Her furrowed face bore the conc... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Ah! Segun! You are wicked. Did your younger brother not deliver my message to you that your father is sick and bedridden?' her emotional outburst characteristically feminine. 'Deji delivered your message. But I can't come,' Segun said bluntly. 'Why, Segun, why?' Mama taken aback. |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'What do I have to do with him again, Mummy? He had denied me. He did. He said he is not my father. He said it with his own mouth and I've made myself to come to terms with it. The denial sank so deep and I lost all feelings toward him. I had to actually force myself to even pray for his recovery, and that once. I stru... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Twenty wraps down the gut And he still wants more Adesegun, their son in Igbein The Igbeins, the sons of Ojowu And Ojowu, the son of Sikiki Who would bring home produce If the farmer he met on the farm Even in the farmer's absence He would still cart the produce home But then in superfluity The farmer's cursing Ranting... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Adesegunfunmi, my one and only! Eh! For the sake of this my womb that bore you for nine months; these my knees that bended to bring you to birth; these my two breasts that nourished you in your first year and for the sake of this my back that carried you for two years, please forgive your father. Jo oko mi. My son tha... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The atmosphere dripped with emotion. Even Sola, the 13-year old, caught the current. Her eyes, fixated on the mother-son scene, were saturated with the tear-gland fluid ready to trickle down any moment. Mrs. Toriola had succeeded in infecting every occupant of the sitting room with emotive germ. Segun contracted the en... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'But Mummy, I'm confused. He said he was not my father. Here you are saying I should forgive him being my father. Would there be smoke without fire? Would Daddy...' the first time in many days his heart and mouth would reconcile to call Mr. Toriola daddy, 'have said it if nothing broods at the back of his mind? Mummy, ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'It was some twenty-nine years ago. You were six months in my womb then. Some three men, armed with matchete, burst into our home while your father and I were asleep. They dragged him out and, oh my God! They murdered him, in very cold blood!' She stopped cold and the valve to her tear-store let go freely. Cascading te... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Eh, what did you see?' 'Daddy was matcheted to death. You came out, saw it and blacked out. I saw everything vividly in the dream.' When weeping weds wondering, a sight to behold indeed it is. With eyes oozing tears and mouth agape in wonder, the matriarch was lost in meditation on God's awesome reign of providence ov... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'I'm not yet through, Adesegun. After the incident, which God showed you in your dream, a lot still happened. I was revived and comforted afterwards. I had hardly adjusted to this which life threw at me when it threw me another. No sooner were my days of mourning over than your father's family stood against me insistin... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Because I couldn't afford antenatal care I resigned to fate; if God would permit I would be delivered of you safely but if not and I would have to lose my life in the process, so be it. But thanks be to God who had a better plan for me. He saw my plight and divinely connected me with this man you have known as your fa... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The atmosphere has been charged up again. Tears freely flowed down every eye in the room. If an outside observer called it showers of tears he would make no mistake. Even if a man who had just had tortoise's head steak, a diet believed by the Yorubas to be an exclusive preserve of a scrooge, had walked in, he would she... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Me? Why? How?!' Segun erupted with a repertoire of one-word questions in response to the responsibility being stacked against him. Something was in his mother's voice that told him this was not about footing his foster father's hospital bill. He had known her all his life and could bet his life on it that her prod was... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'That he has so much offended an anointed one and what we have at hand is the consequence. Only the prayer of that same anointed one can save him from the dangling doom.' 'And?' 'And when I added one to two in my heart, I arrived at you.' 'Mummy!' 'Adesegun, if all my pleas have landed right on your eardrums then it is... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | He had been to the radio-therapy ward of UCH before to visit a cancer patient on admission. Though the patient, a childhood friend, eventually died of the disease, images of the untold hardship faced by those who had come from far and near to 'pass under the machine' were still fresh in his memory. There were always to... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Ah! Nigerian Government!' he muted the exclamation as his nervous system reminded him he was in a hospital – sustainable silence, aside from involuntary cries, must be the lifestyle. 'Why worry my head. I never fully subscribe to Western medicine anyway. Testoctomy, injection or deep X-ray, I would have none,' he roun... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The cab pulled up in front of the freshly repainted General Hospital and Segun took his time to alight. He couldn't be faster. The front passenger seat had pressed so hard on his long femur-borne knees and would need to push it a bit forward to free his legs one at a time, like legs stuck in the proverbial local palm o... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | This was Segun's first time at the hospital. He was welcomed by the board on the gate showing the visiting hours. 4.00 – 6.00pm! Thank God it's just some minutes after four. So he would have been turned away if far, far earlier. |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | He exchanged pleasantries with those at the security post and as it is becoming of every visitor he asked for directions to the male ward. With reluctant steps he entered the hub of the hospital. The deceleration was due to the ongoing conflicts in his mind – the guilt of not making the get-well-quick visit earlier and... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Adesegun, I am very sorry for all the hurts I have caused you. Please, do find a place in your heart to forgive me.' All eyes with good sight in the ward turned away from the captivating Nollywood Yoruba movie on Gateway Television, the state-owned station which the ward TV was tuned to and which hardly featured such ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Hallelujah! Glory be to God. That is the Spirit of God,' Segun concluded. No doubt, the jinx had been broken and the siege over. CHAPTER 6 |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | The balance of the day assumed a sloppy sloth towards the even. The blazing ball that had extended its rays to the horizon for the greater length of the day retired with moderate brilliance at its trail. The golden plate warmed up to clock in for the administration of the heavenly canopy. It trotted over the mountains ... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Segun was in the sitting room overcome in two parts. The physical and mental exhaustion induced by the rigors of maintaining two jobs a day was the first part. He was a pedagogue at both a public secondary school and an evening private coaching centre. His work schedule was usually rounded off by six o' clock. The othe... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Get to the kitchen and check the blue warmer, the wraps of Eba are there. Help yourself to the soup. I really need this sleep so badly.' His little remaining strength drained from him instantly. He dropped into one of the three single-seating armchairs – the one closest to the main door. With head lolled forward and p... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | Strongly, he was feeling for her. He could remember the last time he set eyes on her. He felt sorry for how he treated her then. It was in his bachelor room. She had burst into the familiar terrain – she even held a spare key – brimming over with triumphant joy. From outside she had called out to Segun announcing her f... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | AY was quite aware that this woman, shorn of joy and left to devastation in the emotional torture chamber, had her man first. Either out of malice or out of contempt, her inner judge to determine, she made no input as well. Segun's heart was as heavy as tonnes of cocoa beans for the length of Kemi's stupefaction. It se... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | He recollected some occasions at the more mature stage of their courtship when she would come to help with some sanitary chores and meal preparation while he was away at work. When it was a quarter to six she would set the table, covering the dishes and enamel bowls, and then dash out. Welcoming one's husband from work... |
more-haste-the-marital-trials-of-brother-segun.epub.txt | 'Now I have a wife, at home from morning till evening. Thanks to her leave. Yet no set table. Not even a warm welcome to rub off the day's demand. Sleep has engaged her in an assignment more important than all these. Imagine! I should go to the kitchen and dish out my food myself! My own self! What does she take me for... |
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