The history of Africa is filled with such tales. The part that hurts is our constant reliance on the opinions of the same people that broke us. We call it neo-colonialism. A better world for it would be modern slavery.

Do I have a solution to this dependence? Not yet. One day hopefully. Until then, this is my reality. I live in a country where everyone wants to escape, where tomorrow is not assured and people would rather do business with a foreigner than with their own fellow country people. This is the world is seek to express in my story.

Maybe the darkness in my stories is me seeking to show and understand this life.