10 DAYS - Episode 8
Njideka Ime Supper is ready, but as is a custom in the house, it isn’t eaten until 7 pm. I anticipate tonight’s supper because of our guests. We hardly have people hang around long enough for supper. We all await the arrival of Julie. Butch is back with my dad and probably getting some fatherly advice. I’m in the kitchen rechecking that every single item on the supper menu, if there ever is a written menu for supper , is ready; and my mom? Her absence in here is absurd. She’d always hang around long after the meals have been prepared, tidying up and checking that nothing was left uncooked. This is a culture I’ve been brought up to and albeit my mom should retire from it as I’ve come of age and can handle it all by myself, she wouldn’t drop it. Times when she was down with sickness, she’d still find the strength to sit in here – right in the chair where she’d sat stunned while Edisemi stormed out of the house in her fit of pique – and supervise the whole process. I trans...