The Habit ; Black and white.

e school. That was the first time I saw Father Bernard, the owner of the school. He was feared by all and sundry because of

sh anyone who crossed him and , If he wore an ash shirt, it meant that he was willing to punish people that day and was also ready to release people from under punishments. They w

my high school were equally scared of him; he occasionally flogged them in his house, which was called the community, whenever they made a mistake, so no one was above him. Father Bernard was a short, dark man in

zing, but he didn't heed their pleas until he was satisfied. "How can I have prefects in this school when the whole school is noisy? It is required of everyon

"21" because he doesn't admit students in other classes apart from Basic 7, so external students whom he didn't groom from the start would not corrupt others. He said there were over a hundred students who wrote the examinations but were not given admission becaus

id he was proud of the senior students who poured dirty water on the last set of policemen that came to harass him. I imagined the students lined up in a straight, orderly formation like the army, with eac

fore she was finally found in Lagos, brought back to school, and expelled. For some reason, I was angry towards Nwafi for making the "all-powerful" Father Bernard