Tiny's Story

Iloro House has eight rooms and one more that hardly counts: the old storeroom by the back door, which the landlord calls Room 9 so he can charge rent for it. Babatunde Olaoye, who is six foot four, lives there with one shirt, one bottle of cologne and a long list of debts, and somehow somebody comes to see him every single day. This is his story in three chapters: the box room and the traffic, the power-cut night the whole house tried to help, and the week the money ran out.