CHAPTER 9
Abe Igi was a palm wine bar, eponymously named after the huge baobab tree under which a shrewd woman had arranged about a dozen long benches which served as both seats and tables for the patrons. Here her patrons gathered in the afternoons to play their draught and Ayo games, and also to drink a lot of the palm wine she sold. Abe Igi was just about a hundred yard from Baba Lamidi’s house.
Segilola, the middle-aged owner was an excellent hostess who knew how to keep her regular customers entertained. She teased, and ribbed the men like they were mates. She generally kept their cups full, some say for the reason that many would not bother to protest their bill when it was time to go home, since the wine effectively robbed them of any memory relating to how much they had consumed.
