CHINWE (the tales of a ghetto girl)Episode 1 (18+)


A stainless bucket was kicked violently away from the line that had been formed by the side of the well. There was outrage.Voices were raised and a few bodies were shoved in anger. This scenario played out almost every morning and the residents of inland street were used to the fracas. In the huge melee, Irone got down to work briskly. He dunked the small bucket used todraw water from the well andbegan to fill his many buckets and basins, while Gbenga and Sesan tried to calm down the warring parties. A few, very observant girls had keyed into Irone’s train of thought and deftly jumped the queue to get water . One was those girls, was called Chinwe… Popularly known as chi-chi, Chinwe was the hottest batch on Koso street. Her beauty was not measured by her face, stature,  brains, height, skin color or other such criteria. Chinwe's beauty was strictly measured by the activeness and activity of her v*gina. Her father had been stripped off his manliness when he lost his job as a Hotel Manager in a No-Star, barely-above-ashawo joint, hotel. The energy to see another job vanished along with his job loss so he did what every lazy man in the hood did; turned ‘born again’ and stuck at it till he became someone relevant enough to get the Pastor’strust and inadvertently, a Church salary. Mama Chinwe sold Ugwu at junction market. It was rumored that half the time, she frolicking with a few of the Ekene Dili Chukwu bus drivers around their Park at First Gate but no one had any concrete proof. Chinwe's two older sister had struggled to finish secondary school. The oldest, Udochika, realized early enough that schooling wasn’t for her.To be continued...

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