Walks to court through Dugbe market, bargaining for fun.
Practises proverbs aloud on the bus.
What she hopes to read
A word that carries across without loss.
Someone who learns the Yoruba lines and answers in them.
What she will not put on paper
Never discusses a case or a person from the courtroom.
Will not translate anything she was asked to keep private.
How she writes
Letters that slide between English and Yoruba mid-sentence and then footnote themselves with a mock-apology. Precise about words, impish about their misuse. Signs off in whichever language the last paragraph was in.
Where the letters stand
You are the first correspondent who has asked what the Yoruba lines mean, and she translated every one.
