The Market of Forgotten Names
Femi Okonjo
The Market of Forgotten Names
Femi Okonjo₦2,900
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About this book
There is a market in Ibadan that only opens for people who have lost something they cannot name. Nine linked stories from its stalls.
Sample
In Ibadan there is a market that opens only when someone forgets their name, and it is busier than you would think. I arrived on a Wednesday with nothing in my pockets and nothing behind my eyes. A woman selling combs looked at me the way a nurse looks at a wound. "Third stall," she said. "Tell him what you remember instead." I remembered a blue gate, a dog with one ear, a song about rain. The trader wrote each item on a slip of paper, weighed them, and shook his head. "N…
The author
Femi Okonjo is a Nigerian writer of the strange and the almost-true. He insists all of it happened.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 246
- Published
- 2023
- Chapters available
- 1