Ogbodo Somtochukwu is a Nigerian writer of Igbo descent whose work excavates the textures of boyhood, burrowing into its rituals, its unspoken intimacies and the confusion that comes with growing up into a world that has no language for how you feel. He is a graduate of Microbiology from Anchor University Lagos and his writing has been featured in The Kalahari Review.
To me, the threat of friendship was real, and never-ending, peculiarly because I was cross-eyed, with skin the colour of a burnt pot, and everything about me inspired people to ridicule.
