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That night, Nneka sat in the hospital and played the song again on her phone, holding the speaker to her father’s ear. For the first time in three days, his fingers twitched. He opened his eyes and whispered, not to her, but to the song:

It was a praise song, but not for a living man. It was an oriki , a praise epithet for a hero. Nneka had grown up in Surulere, far from the dusty hills of Aguleri. She knew she was Igbo, but “Isi Igbo”—the Head of Igbo? That was not a nickname. That was a title of war. That night, Nneka sat in the hospital and

“E muo gbara m aka… the spirit called me home.” It was an oriki , a praise epithet for a hero

“Why did my father search for this?” she asked. That was not a nickname