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That Piece of Chicken - Amwene Etiang (Uganda)

He looked down at his audacious granddaughter, waiting to hear her plan.

Two days before.

“Adai, turn up the volume!” you politely ask your little sister after she insists on hogging the TV remote.

“Oh, so Blessing is now in this woman’s house to confront her about her sister?” you say with the certainty of a student who’s just solved a Maths problem. You are engrossed in a Nollywood movie you have been watching for three minutes and don’t know the name of when a thunderstorm starts. The picture freezes, the sound crackles and then the screen goes blank. If you weren’t so invested in the movie, you may have taken time to laugh at God’s humour. Load shedding plus bad weather never makes for good entertainment on a rainy day at home in Kampala.

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