Lene Ododomu

        Cried for the Abandoned Sacrifice                (a sympathetic short story)                                                         By                       Lene Ododomu __________________________________________ Because Dimini was born on Monday, so he had the African belief in the law of nature about birth that children born on Monday are raised by a single mother and struggle to achieve what others have achieved. He grew up to know only his mother who goes to the rain forest to fish with her local canoe. Because of her poor background, she couldn't afford to buy a good canoe for fishing, so she manages a canoe that was abandoned by her fellow fisher woman who also helped her with paddle. Dimini was originally bor...

             The Heartless Step-brother                        ( a short story)                               By                       Lene Ododomu __________________________________________ Ifeanyi lost his mother at a very tender age and started living with his father, chief Uduka. His father knows the situation of him that if he leaves him with his step mother, Amara, she will maltreat him because she does not like him. Ifeanyi is the only surviving child of his late mother, Ugochi. He was like an egg in her palms because she was barring for 12 years in the marriage and that made her husband's people, especially his mother to marry him second wife who gave birth to a son just in two months of marriage. After given birth to her first son, Ebuka, she co...

                  From Grass to Grace                       (a short story)                        By Lene Ododomu Many people advised Mr. Okeke to do family planning but he refused. He is known for Mr no job and a grown up man that beg for a living. He has seven children but yet he is still not satisfied by  impregnating his wife to produce more children. Obinna, the third son who is just 12 years old joined his brothers in the streets to struggle for survival. The careless mother, Nneka, who enjoys the love making with her husband to get pregnancies on every  touch in the night, advised Obinna to go to Onisha market to push wheelbarrow.  By agreeing to do the work because he had no choice due to the state of the family, he earns sometimes N2,000 and above in a day but they all go to the account of his...

                     Standing in the Middle                           (a short story)                                          By                          Lene Ododomu __________________________________________

               The Chain on my Neck                      (a short story)                  By Lene Ododomu __________________________________________ Fatima grown up in a family of illiterate and  this was not just  her family but almost all the people in Kato village in Kaduna state. The state governor was interested in girl child education and he brought this development to the rural areas in the state, and villages like Kato was given the opportunity to benefit from the development. Before this initiative came, Fatima had finished her primary school but was restricted by the mother, Mariam from going to secondary school and insisted on pushing her into marriage. So when the state government agencies came, they visited Fatima's home and included her name among the selected girls for education but the mother against it and want...

                     The Deadly Journey                           (a short story)                                                              By                       Lene Ododomu __________________________________________ Bose lost her father at a very tender age. She was still in primary school when her father died of a tragic accident by falling down from a palm tree. He was a palmwine tapper who was well known in the whole street of Ijebode, Lagos.   When his dead was announced to the people in the street, mourning travels across the whole street. Bose was deceivingly brought home and was told about the news, although she was st...

                  Politician's Promise                       (a short story)                                          By                   Lene Ododomu __________________________________________ Every politician is like a white cheap who can be sighted in a dark night when aspiring for political office but a black cheep who cannot be sighted in dark night after achieving what he or she wanted. The people of Digbene village supported their son, Hon. Dimini when he wanted to contest for the office of local government chancellor in Ese Odo, Ondo state. They supported him both financially, spiritually and physically expecting that he would change the narrative of the village for being the first to represent them in the government aff...

                         The Struggle                      of the Girl Child                      (a short story)                                By                                       Lene Ododomu __________________________________________ Amara was born into a very poor family and had many bitter experiences about the difficulty of life. On the day she was born, her father, Obinna, who is a palmwine tapper was in the  market selling his palmwine which he use to cater for the family. Because of his absence, his younger brother, Uche,  was the one who borrowed money to buy drinks and little money to give to the midwives ...

      The   Tradition and the Black Whiteman                            (a short story)                                  By                      Lene Ododomu __________________________________________ So far you are a son of the soil of Amaseya village then you don't need to be told of the tradition of the land. The oracle called Egbesu forbids a man from licking woman's private part and sucking of her breasts like a new born baby.  Every daughter of the land  is also forbidden from puting a manhood in her mouth. It is orally transmitted from generation to generation that the oracle, Egbesu, is a god  of justice of the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta region which is connected to Bayelsa, Arogbo in  Ondo state, etc. Egbesu is also ...