GLOBE

To any unsuspecting bystander, ihe a bụ just kerosene lamp. Mana to us, the heroes of the 80s and 90s, this is a lot more than that. Ihe a bụ our "I-Pass-My-Neighbour tiger gen", our generator, our lista, our inverter and our source of light in a world NEPA foro ntutu taa na ọ ga abụ nothing but darkness and gloom.

Today for some of us tastewagoro ego and so ma the luxury of art, lamp for all the nostalgia and memories of beatings and akụkọ ifo and half lit rooms o bu, bụzi a decorative item. We paint and hang it up and look all bougie and ego oyiboish, mana back then, it was more.

Anything banyere lamp bụ a big chore. The routine iwefu sooth with broom bụ a last Saturday cleanup of lanterns, mana ọ the daily ificha globe lamp bụ the bane of whoever nọ on lamp duty, maka ikụwa ya bụ a death sentence. Your superheroes ga eti gị ihe ka ha a kpọtara gị from another village and ha amarọdi your real parents. Ificha globe lamp a bụrọ child's play makachi! Ọ bụrọ egwu achị ụtaba n'aka agba. As a matter of fact, ọ ekpere na abuọma ka eji eficha ya.

Thinking of globes and lamps now, the little thing nwe ike imess up your whole evening (maka just like suya, na mgbede ka eji eme ihe gbasara lamps). And the funny thing is that I get in an illogical way why parents ji adị mad na ikuwa globe. The same kind of mad ha na enwe na ikuwa breakable plates, or louvres, or mirror, or flask, in short anything na-akụwa akụwa. I ga atufuwu ego ga egote ihe ahụ times two and get a lesser beating than you would na ikuwa any of those things.

Funny story bụ the story of one of my cousins kuwa globe, mpa ya etichaa ya ihe nye ya money to go and buy another globe. I mana my guy pụta n'ụzọ kuwa the one o jere ị gote. Ajuna mụ ihe emecha mee my guy.