We laugh to the stores and markets if we can but the laughter is the laughter of loss and of pain. For our laughter is not made whole; it is the laughter of the deceived and of the besieged. There is no abundance in this December rolling away… Our hardworking men and women wait, wait and wait for minimum wage forever … Maybe the chores of this December will give them the minimum wage that cannot ride their stomachs home before their December is over. For failure to pay my flat rent of one month before the end of December that was far from ending. My friends, northerners and non-northerners, counselled me not to dare the almighty Sharia Court and its judge.

Source: The Guardian December 27, 2019 02:37 UTC