News from Home by Sefi Atta

Author:Sefi Atta [Atta Sefi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781566568036
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 2012-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Kazeem leaves her room muttering about her audacity. Everyone is making life difficult for him of late: his couriers, the drug law agency in Lagos, his shippers in Bangkok, the Turks in London, and Colombians in New York. The entire universe is conspiring to make life difficult for him and deprive him of business.

There was a time when he would brag that their organization was the largest in Africa, that he had established their trade routes from Thailand. He even claimed to have taken over South Africa after apartheid, colonized the whole country with cocaine, he said, and spread heroin use in countries as far off as Russia, New Zealand, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. She used to be in awe when she didn’t know a poppy seed from an Asian brown or white. Then she discovered that Kazeem was just a middleman, and not even a high-level one at that.

He reports to bigger men in their organization, and fears them. He is rich in naira terms, but they are wealthy in foreign exchange, these men. Barons they are called. She calls them cheats out of common sense rather than a sense of moral superiority. The balloons she carries are worth over a thousand times more than the amount Kazeem pays her, and packed with a pretty consistent mix. At a time like this, when he needs reliable couriers, if she travels with half a million dollars of heroin in her stomach, is it too much to ask for five thousand?

“Foolish man,” she says.

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