The Distant Legend

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The light in the basement has not changed since I last saw it, a pale, watery gray that clings to the dust motes suspended in the still air. I am Olumide Okonkwo, twelve years old, and I am sitting on the cold concrete floor of the Accra Civil Registry, my back pressed against the monolithic slab of black granite that forms the building’s central pillar. It hums. Not a sound you hear with your...

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