Mustard grey with sweetness in her hands

by Anna Atsu

"Ba wo ni?"

"Mo wa!" - I repeat, not to forget. That’s the greeting I hope I can learn before I use it today. I was told how to greet a person in Yoruba last week. I am taking it back, unrehearsed enough with the hope I can repeat it towards the end of the day.

It is a cold, grey March day.

“The air was clammy cold, and for all the tightly closed windows, …