The Paper and the Person
A letter to the interview panel, and to the folder of certified copies in front of it. What have we asked paper to stand in for, and what happens to the thing it was…
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Things we were told,
asked again.
“That’s how it’s done,” somebody says, and the conversation moves on. Mine tends to get stuck there. So I write.
By Zachariah Oburi
01 Wednesdays
The Second Question
The first question usually gets an answer. The second makes people check what time it is.
02 Sundays
The Front Pew
An hour in church. A whole week in which to give yourself away.
The Samaritan Was Busy
Forty seminarians, a man groaning in a doorway, and a talk on the Good Samaritan to give across campus. The experiment is usually told as a rebuke to the busy. Read closely, the parable…
03 Saturdays
The Village Boy
A boy, a village, the road out of it, and the people who watched him go.
The Colours of Her Rosary
Kerubo leads the Wednesday rosary on beads from Italy, a different colour for every part of the world. That afternoon her husband’s brother arrives from the hills with a bunch of bananas and a…
Every Sunday morning
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