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Yoruba Banker

44c. Long before there were commercial banks in Nigeria, men (osusu) would come

around, collect and loan market/business men and women money. Living at #4

Kalajayie Street in Igbobi, Lagos, in the early 1980s, I saw this man every day making

notations in a brown ledger tucked away in his green shoulder bag, keeping account of

the amount of money loaned and collected. 

Then, one day in the 

Waiting to See Jesus

45c. Almost every day, I’d awaken to a beautiful sunrise on St. Helena Island. If I

remember correctly, it didn’t rain whatsoever during my two-week stay in 2001. I had

driven from NYC, so learning and getting around this South Carolina Island eventually

came with ease. The light, oh! That beautiful, brilliant morning light would drape you in

its comfortable glow, replicating God’s