Keside Anosike writing in Catapult:
“Did I resemble my father now with my depression? Did he see me every morning and feel arrested by the familiarity?”
In Igbo, Ogbuagu literally translates to “a lion’s killer.” It doesn’t entirely suggest cruelty, but bravery. It is the highest title that can be given to a person in Igbo land, and reserved only for the strong, the brave—those who walk into a lion’s den without saying goodbye to the people they left at home...[more]