Expresso

by Owuamanam Joseph (Nigeria)

A leap into the unknown Nigeria

Umudimagu is one of the renowned village among the nine kingdoms of Inyishi, a rural out sketch of the infamous Obudu horizon. There has been stories, preceding stories with many bad omens and horrifying experience shared by many. Aguiyi my notorious friend sojourner ones told me, "Umudiagu is terrible, the widely acknowledged diety of seven heads is life and present in Umudiagu, I had a one on one encounter with his priestess, she had a hair made of snake twigs and on top of her hair is another line of human heads, seeming to rest on a plain. They priestess was impeccably beautiful, with a skin as light as the stary stars of the midnight, she had an innocent smile with white gappy teeth, radiating amidst her succulent eyes in a bluish shade of white, the moment I beheld her my breadth seized my body paralyzed, it was funny that I could not even admire her impeccable beauty. In a splinter of seconds I was unconscious only to wake up in a hospital. The road to Umudimagu is mysterious, I cannot even recall which route led us into that interior land of traditions." I cherished traveling, I loved adventure and so did my desire and will to visit Umdimagu evolve and grew more intense with the stoke of time, and thus began my journey to the unknown. What a splinter call!. I travelled through the nine seas and nine villages only to discover at the vale of Umdimagu that a step into the mysterious land of dogmatism and traditional epitomy is a voyage into a place of no return. An expresso to the arena of my ancestor's. What a tough call