Ahmed Koroma's Letters from America - Part 2

Ahmed Koroma’s Letters from America were first published five years ago. This is Part 2 of the six-part series, which ran on July
30th, 2012. Suba Ranka picked up
his cutlass, wiped the blood with his fingers and smiled. He had killed again.
Only this time, the victim was a goat. He meticulously picked his nose and
looked around. He was getting really good at this; chasing goats and chickens around
the baffa and killing them one after another.
Last night, as he ran around the village looking for goats and chickens,
he realized that the moon had suddenly disappeared. The place had gotten dark
and his victims were hard to find. He had killed the moon, too.He took one more look at the dead goat. I am
going to pluck the wings off the goat before it flies away. He was really good at this. Last night, just
before the moon disappeared, he had sworn that one day he would take a big
knife, climb the court barre wall and take a stab at the moon. He didn't know
why and he didn't care. H…