CHAPTER 4: INTER-RACIAL RELATIONS, IN CREEK TOWN

The day for the visit to the Chief Priest had arrived. Mazi Eze arranged the materials for the sacrifice accordingly. When he was done, he called for his wife, Lucy to come join him. The couple had agreed to teach their relative a lesson, for being such a stingy and insolent man. ‘Lucy!’ Mazi Eze shouted as he went around the compound, looking for his wife. On getting to the back of the compound, he met his daughter holding a bowl of water, with her mother bent over and vomit on the floor ‘bring the water let me wash my mouth, and my face.’ Lucy said, collecting the water from the teenager. The teenager froze in fear on seeing her father. ‘Lucy is everything okay?’ Mazi Eze asked his wife. ‘It just started this morning, I think its malaria.’ Lucy replied. ‘Can you make the trip to the place, Lucy?’ Mazi Eze asked his voluptuous wife, not wanting his teenage daughter to know where they were headed. The woman assured him that she would accompany him, after all she...