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• W4286809988 abstract "Spain’s Last Colonial Outposts Iheoma Nwachukwu (bio) Ema used to say our village sat on a “butte” of possibility—on hilly land, though not an isolated hill, swollen with water and limestone. He was our self-appointed geography expert. At least he was effusive about things—such as our distance from the Atlantic Ocean, how our rubber trees and mahogany were disappearing—until his father’s death. His stepmother was crotchety and aspiring; he was faltering and absurdly protective of his heirdom. And now that he shared his father’s house solely with her, we noticed how he closed up into a single fin. Pruned his circle of friends to a solitary boy. Took up smoking. He and his stepmother feinted in step, the cut and thrust of a farm cat and a bush rat. And it was in the flux of resisting his stepmother that Ema put our village on the Commissioner for Environment’s radar. Condescending radio reporters talked about how our mines were profitless eyesores; the way our houses were no longer made from mud, yet we somehow managed to stay dolefully rural; how our roads were ridiculously wide and impeded by sand, flanked by tall, rangy trees, which threw their shadows insolently across our windows; how, when they gazed out of their buses from the hilltop, the arrangement of our houses looked incoherent, as if a big hand had swept matchboxes into a heap. We didn’t blame Ema for this scathing scrutiny. Life had dealt him a terrible hand. We only wished we had jumped in at the first sign of fireworks from his stepmother, even though we knew how difficult it was for him to accept help, how suspicious he was of our intentions, how unwilling we were to put our arms around him. In any case, the night Ema arrived home late from work was the opening wedge of his unraveling. That night, he had grunted a greeting at us as we puffed weed and soaked up palm wine in the village bar, and after he had walked past us with his heavy bag, his distended stomach, we turned to each other and laughed, “Bet me, brother! This sick boy will collapse one day from all this weight!” [End Page 144] Ema dragged himself up the narrow steps in front of the yellow house, and reached the damaged living room door. He leaned away from the door, whose manifold termite holes reminded him of his slender means and how village gossips expected him to be Daddy Billie Gates, when he wasn’t. He cupped a cold hand on top of his helmet-sized belly and raked a gaze over the roomful of lamplit women who carped about in his father’s house, eyeballing them the way he imagined his father would. “You’re just coming back from the mine?” shouted his stepmother. A high voice that startled him. She bobbed on her broad feet at the head of the village dance group and shuffled to the door to peek, like an anxious lookout, into the bag of cobalt rocks he always carried. Ema raised and lowered his brows. “Anybody still working at night, Mother,” he answered defensively— his tone burdened with a muddled need for her approval—as she withdrew her head, “is a ghost. So your agile son is back. But I wasn’t working late. I stopped briefly at Prof. Ganja’s house.” The other women, far behind her, waved white handkerchiefs in the air, dancing. He saw that they had pushed aside his father’s silver-framed portraits, shoved the chairs carelessly into the walls, and dumped their muddy shoes and slippers in the corner, under the faded funeral poster of his father. Ema felt a capful of hot air burn inside his chest. His father would never have allowed them in here, where he had lined his boyhood pictures against the wall—childhood photographs he had snapped in Equatorial Guinea. Why hadn’t Ema’s stepmother sent one of the women to the mine to ask him if this intrusion into what remained of his father’s life was permissible? Wasn’t Ema the nominal head of household..." @default.
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