Toyin Falola's Quest for the Big Snake and the Journey to Illorin

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Reading this section in his autobiographical A Mouth Sweeter than Salt.

 Magnificent.

We see his first encounter with a train, the Big Snake, his travelling on the Snake to Ilorin, where he becomes apprenticed to a beggar, while he is declared missing at home.

Wonderful reading 

[Toyin Falola]

Ilorin

A city as big as this

Needing no masquerade

Words are quivers

A sentence uttered has 18 meanings.

I bow in awe

TF

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