My Father's Head By Okwiri Taylor

Hi Everyone,

I read the story called "My father's head" by Okwiri Oduor, this story is colorful and a little complex. For me, it has a lot of lingoes that made the reading difficult. It's about a woman called Simbi that seems to works as a maid in a retirement home, along with her friend Bwibo. The story begins with Simbi describing what looks like a church service conducted by a priest called Ignatius, during the service the priest talked about love among relatives, and neighbors; this made her think about her father, who passes away tragically when he was hit by a tractor. Because of this memories, she began to remember how much she loved her father. Moreover a few days later, she spent several hours trying to draw him, but even when she was able to draw his body and face, she couldn't remember the shape of his head. This becomes the center of the story, as Simbi shows the drawing to Bwibo and they both tried to understand why she can't remember her father's head. Later Bwibo promised to help her to remember, but apparently, she got more than she wanted, when Simbi stated: "Perhaps that was the reason I had forgotten all about it; it was a horrible, disconcerting thing to look at" (Oduor, 2013).
What I did encounter were 2 reviews about the author, Okwiri Oduor, in one of them, the author stated "in which a young woman comes to terms with her father's death in the most remarkable way" (New Internationalist, 2014). Certainly, the end was brilliant, but the route to that end was a bumpy ride. Furthermore, the other review talked a little more about the story, but with some impressions, like when they said that she "tries to remember and draw what her father looked like but cannot remember his features" (SyndiGate Media Inc., 2017). When she clearly remember him except the shape of his