His power base, however, is undermined by him being constantly, “ghosted”, or moved from prison to prison.

The women wore long uniform dresses or ashoebi of brown print; their hair was decorated with cowrie shells to complement the fancy masquerade.

The house had been new painted, and smelt of varnish and turpentine, and a large streak of white paint inflicted itself on the back of the old boy’s fur-collared surtout.

A third technique deals with the problem of the shortened aryepiglottal fold.