The Series Of My Life - Season 1 - Episode 45

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The Series Of My Life - Season 1 - Episode 45

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I arrived at the Essen Central station at about 4:30 pm. I had changed trains in Magdeburg - Hannover - Braunschweig and Dortmund. The train timetable was printed and given to me when I bought the ticket at the Brandenburg station.

I called Afam when I got to Essen. He directed me to their own HEIM in Essen West. Theirs was far better than ours. Their state Westfalia was the richest state out of the sixteen states that made up Germany. The Westfalia state boasted of (Koln) Cologne, Dusseldorf, Essen, Aachen, Monchenglabach, Bielefeld, Duisburg, Dortmund, Mulheim and even Gelscheinkirchen; the city of Shalke 04 football club. Other cities such as Oberhausen, Fulda and many large cities were also situated in Westfalia. It was obviously the largest state too in terms of human concentration.

When I got to Afam's HEIM, he took me outside and bought some beer and chicken. I cooked the stew in their kitchen while he molded and smoked marijuana.(we called it weed in Germany).

There was one other guy who shared his room with him. His name was Emeka, a body builder who had dreadlocks.

When we finished eating, we went back to Oberhausen to get my bag from Matthew. I had called him again but his phone was still switched off. When we got to Oberhausen, we entered an Afro shop where a Yoruba man sold African food items. We asked him if he had seen Matthew recently.


We wanted to ask around before going to ring his bell.


The news we got from the man shocked us. Matthew had been arrested over one month ago, precisely in August. He had been a suspect of drug dealing. The police had monitored him for many nights before he was arrested.


My mind flashed back to the day I and Nnenna saw Matthew being dragged out of the car and into his apartment. That was the day I left for Camp.

I was nearly caught in the net too. If I had been in the house when they brought Matthew, nothing would have stopped them from arresting me too.


We left Oberhausen and went back to Essen. I called Nnenna and asked her about Matthew, she said he was arrested in August but she didn't want to tell me yet. She also said that all those nights when Matthew claimed to have gone to work was actually drug dealings.