Francis Abasi Ha Ha Ha

It’s mid­day. No­body goes to sleep each day. Maybe he drank too much haha. No eat­ing, no drink­ing. Lazy like lions.

The pro­fes­sor tapped his com­puter with pink fin­gers, webbed with dark veins. A room of white blank-faces crowded his vi­sion. He looked down.

Yes. 1:57 AM in Kenya right now. Yes, peo­ple are busy asleep.

Let me just give a story about what hap­pened in Kenya while my com­puter wakes haha. It was 1990. I was trav­el­ing back to the Nairobi, no the Mom­basa. It was one of those jit­ney-ve­hi­cles. You know, those con­tainer ve­hi­cles. It takes you way out where the plane was parked. The air­line re­main un­named. Yes, the plane was not ready. We stayed in the con­tainer. It was hot. Then came the prespit— Pres­by­te­ri­ans ha­haha pre­split—pre­cip­i­ta­tion? That one haha. We waited for an hour and the plane was over­booked. Peo­ple were sit­ting on the floor. We started going but the road, the tire on the road makes that roar. Rrrr haha, yes. Peo­ple were sit­ting on the floor. They’ll sur­vive haha. But it was like one of those race cars. The run­way was of con­cern. This is Kenya. What­ever pop­u­la­tion is there let it be there. The mo­ment you put there the road in these com­mu­ni­ties, set­tle­ments will ad­just to these net­works.

Talk about the devil.

His lap­top blinked on, low bat­tery. He turns to ad­just the adapter.

 It be­comes much dif­fi­cult. I don’t know; it de­pends on how long it goes. Ah yes, you see this adapter I bought for $5 in Kenya. Here they charge $20. Maybe there’s a rea­son. Haha. As more you in­crease the price.