My head master / by Kyuka Lilymjok.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lilymjok, Kyuka, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School principals--Nigeria--Fiction.

School principals.

Primary school teachers--Nigeria--Fiction.

Primary school teachers.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press Limited, 2017.

Summary:

"I first time I saw the man who became my headmaster was when he rode his motorcycle past our house in Tyosa. He was a huge, dark, hairy man with big eyeballs that looked like they could see through anything and often saw through everything. His eyes were so frightening to me that I always trembled whenever he turned them on me. Not only were the eyeballs big, he had a way of baring them in the most frightening manner when he focused them on you. Older people said his father Akut was nicknamed Akut the owner of frightening eyes for pretty much the same reason. His eyeballs were said to be so big as to scare away birds whenever he entered the forest. Some people said they scared away chickens too. So he was called Akut the owner of frightening eyes ... "But Akut's son was headmaster and no one dared pass his nickname to his son though he had passed his frightening eyes to the son. No one dared sing songs behind him the way children used to sing behind Akut his father ..." Passing through and growing up in school with Akut's son as the Headmaster, and what it took to grow up in a closely-knit community through the eyes and memory of a pupil is a story that has to be told, the story of any pupil. And this is the story ...

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Chapter One - A Man and his Manners

Chapter Two - A Gleaming Roof and a Leaping Heart

Chapter Three - The Damn Motorcycle

Chapter Four - The Voice of Aboi-Abyin

Chapter Five - Little Fingers, Little Ears

Chapter Six - The Hawk, the Chick and the Vulture

Chapter Seven - The Missing Number

Chapter Eight - To Every Teacher His Due

Chapter Nine - Eyes in the House

Chapter Ten - The Timekeeper and His Bell

Chapter Eleven - Assembly and the Morning Dew

Chapter Twelve - Show Me Your Teeth

Chapter Thirteen - The Old Woman that will not Die

Chapter Fourteen - The Dust Exercise Book

Chapter Fifteen - Big Heads, Big Stomachs, Stupid Heads

Chapter Sixteen - The Vernacular Rule

Chapter Seventeen - The Visit of the School Inspector

Chapter Eighteen - Tyrant of the Football Field

Chapter Nineteen - Yashim, What is Your Name?

Chapter Twenty - A Recipe for Anomie

Chapter Twenty-One - The Underbelly of An Angel

Chapter Twenty-Two - Jokes and our Little Skulls

Chapter Twenty-Three - The Trip to Zonkwa

Chapter Twenty-Four - The Last Supper

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

978-57399-9-6

OCLC:

1124344552