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"cities that were never dark because they forgot to see the moon"

"And they knew all about it - the village people and the man with the axe up there.... They knew all about the moon."

"Apo's passenger lorry that traveled from Enugu to Inyi and return."

"one of those intercity mini-buses that plied between Enugu and Onitsha"

"The nearby big market, where the surrounding rural towns would come to trade on Nkwo (the last day of the four-day native week)."

"Then they would send about a dozen or more enthusiastic volunteers, laden with yams and grated boiled cassava, to accompany us by lantern-light back home."

"Yet, they brought with them, gifts and fusses, from distant towns and villages"

"Maduekesi had more than thirty wives - thirty one and half to be exact"

"At least, so grandfather (in reality my granduncle) Ohia told it."

"We are all "Umu-nna"(children of the same father)."

"He took him home, and brought him up as one of his own."

"even during the period of transatlantic slavery"

"Ajo-ofia", the bad forest where twin babies and children who had their upper tooth first were - for fear of them - abandoned"

"the Protestant church was quite close ahead. We only had to go past it"

"Funny: baby he still was; yet I was not afraid because he was with me."

"And there were those in the darkness, looking at me… eyes, or rather souls, studying me"

"But as I turned in the direction of the uncanny observation . . . I met nothing; nothing but pitch darkness."

"I was looking at me; how my legs were moving so fast they were barely touching the ground."

"Amongst those who I never met because they had passed on, long before I came along."

"I saw Warmth chase away Coldness. And I heard the crickets in Applause."