Admittedly, I was getting audacious. After watching Sola’s technique for almost two weeks, I thought I could pull it off. I had been studying his bargaining moves, how he cracked jokes in Yoruba at the right moment and pretended to be offended the next. So when he stepped out for a phone call in the…
1. Not to count my chickens before they are hatched. I learnt this the hard way when I was getting to an agent’s office two weeks ago to pay for a two bedroom apartment, only to find someone else had beaten me to it. I was this close to calling all my friends over for…
This has to be done. You may accuse me of blatant plagiarism (an interesting habit in this country, however unfounded) of a certain Nigerian writer’s how to’s, but I’ve always been of the conviction that it is better to steal a good idea than to come up with a bad one. In this case I…
