by Femke van Zeijl …he more or less admitted the amount I owed was based on the vivid imagination of a power company employee, since not a single person had come over to check my meter. I thought I had outsmarted them. When my first light bill came, I asked my friend Sola to go... Read More

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Femke becomes Funke: A Wazobia dinner table

by Femke van Zeijl Maybe it is the STARs that keep coming, or P-Square’s music we all dance to, or my need to believe in a future for this country some people so eagerly predict the disintegration of. But that night I just feel happy to be part of the unity. Needless to say it was... Read More

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December 4, 2012

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Femke becomes Funke: Iya Funke was here

by Femke van Zeijl My landlady is beating the talking drum clasped under her left arm. When she sings her voice sounds half her age – the Yoruba lady is over 80. ‘Iya Funke, don’t go o! Iya Funke, we will miss you o!’ My mother is sitting next to her on the couch in... Read More

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July 2, 2012

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Femke becomes Funke: Sex and closed draperies

One last time I take a look out the large window. I spent so many hours sitting in its sill, thinking, enjoying the view over the Utrecht houses onto the Dutch polder landscape. Then I pick up the last box, walk out the studio apartment and return the keys to the land lady who came to... Read More

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