Could Lanroye have betrayed us all? Were the gods also taken captive as I was? Helpless as I was as sacrilegious practices were experimented on their bodies. My three wives, Orunmilla the basket of wisdom, Olokun the sea king, Obatala also named Orisha nla (the arch divinity); Creator forbids...The boy Shettima’s revelation chilled me to the depths of my bones even as I danced as if nothing was amiss.Lanroye’s eternal grudge has been held against me for slaying his twin thousands of years ago but it was with Ogun of Ire I held bitter rivalry since my ascension as Orisha.My fame as a mortal increased more as an Orisha, a large portion of Ogun’s warriors began to take me as their patron god, the war god was not happy to share, unlike the rest of the Orishas he saw me for who I was, power hungry, spoilt and vain. I threw parties in my brass palace in the sky, broke protocols by mingling with the mortals during festivals, womanized goddesse

It’s been four days since the dance, the children strolled around town enjoying their new freedom. Shango sometimes tagged alone, uninterested, a faraway look in his eyes.Having no idea of what had become of Logan, they sometimes argued at length about finding out whether he was okay and how they were going to rescue him.“I’m pretty sure he is still alive, I bet he’s much more valuable to them now since they lost us, they must have simply moved him to some other safe house elsewhere.” Shettima remarked. “Now that the institute and the government have their hands full convincing the public, we can be on to them, the assurance that we would be running as far away from them gives us the upper hand.”Afterwards, they all concluded that with Shango by their side they can launch a rescue for Logan and then figure out how to disappear from the institute's radar, they hurried back to their camp on the plateau to inform the thu

Before I continue..i thought I should post a short glossary on the orishá before..seems fitting  as I'm going to writing more about west African deities, since they're aren't quite as  as well known to theathe readers like their Europeans and Asian counterparts. Ajaka- Sango’s half-brother, 2nd Alaafin of Oyo empire (deified) Orisha of earthquakes Ajé- Goddess of wealth Arò meta- (Yoruba translation, meaning three witches) sisters of Lanroye & Elegbara, the three patron goddesses of witches and wizards, Orisha of magic and sorcery Alaafia- Orisha of peace, daughter of Aje Aroni- (the one-legged, Aroni the great green)Orisha of the forest 

Detective Okafor picked his way carefully among the rubbles that was the remains of the junior secondary school's staff room building, the entire school has been abandoned since an Abami took a likening to the environment and then decided to move in, living in the staff room building.It’s been a couple of months since the calamitous incident in Lagos and the escape of all sorts of abnormal anomalies that the newspapers and the media has been dubbing the Abami into the city and neighboring towns, some of the creatures are yet to be accounted for, the aquatic looking ones into the sea while others had fled into the wild, some of the smaller ones even managed to hide out inside the city but recently the monstrous ones were being forced out to seek food, in a city population of over 5million, it was like trapping a hungry fox inside a pen full of chickens.Just a few weeks back, an Abami had laid waste to the streets of Victoria garden city before it was finally ove

Binta sighed contently as she basked in the mid-day Ivory Coast sun, the animated French accented voice conversing with her mother drifted over her thoughts as she sipped chilled coconut milk. She signed once again as she laid back down on the pent house balcony’s reclined chair pushing the voices away to focus more on her reminisce.It’s been three months since they fled the institute and one since they found her birth mother. She still found it hard to believe her mother was Cha Cha Adaure Roberts, if someone had told her months before that her favorite celebrity was her mother, she would have recommended floor 01 to them, it was where all the crazies were incarcerated in the institute. Cha Cha Roberts was a wealthy superstar Nigerian actress and model, with multiple awards wins and nominations across the continent and the world. She watched as her mother and her make-up artist chattered on as they get her ready for a photo shoot, the main reason why she followe