We used to live in a ‘compound house’, and were exposed to so many things from watching grown-ups fight, to infidel arguments. There was another thing; something else I had not only been exposed to, but had taken a liking to. During weekdays, after school, when the older people were not home yet, the bigger children among us; mostly teenagers, would convene in one apartment to watch ‘blue film’. We, the younger ones, would be spread out as messengers—to sound the alarm when any of the parents came home. As time went on, our curiosity grew until Melinda and I decided to partake in the older children’s dine. That day, we crawled bare footed on the balcony floor right behind the sitting room to take a peep through the slightly opened curtain. They were all so quiet and focused as if taking a math lesson. There was a naked man lying in a canoe, and a naked woman sitting beside him. And they were just staring at each other. We got bored a few seconds after and crawled...
Empowerment over Judgment