Málọmọ́ recounts a ten-day admission of a boy with sickle cell disease in Nigeria of 2000. He faces neglect on the ward.

After many days, it becomes a journey across border, a health trip drawn out by everyday hurdles. A still but yet moving story, it captures the echoes of natives and immigrants, those struggling to receive and leave. It reveals the power of imagination where reality has failed to express the agonies, unapologetic but full of apologies. Apparently, it is the wandering of an innocent child who employs a myth about himself to excuse his instability and birth a story above his age. An helical narration, a memoir written over decades with swings of enlightenment, in it the narrator from time to time becomes different from the protagonist. Gladly, it ends with many departures but such not to grieve over.

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