A Private Experience
'A Private Experience' depicts an encounter between two women—a Christian Igbo woman and a Muslim Hausa woman—who seek refuge in an abandoned shop during a violent riot in Kano, Nigeria. The story is told from the perspective of Chika, the young Christian woman, and has an interesting use of time as it moves between the encounter in the shop, flashbacks to the riot and flashforwards to the aftermath of the riot, and...