yorhmienerd:


Please try to interprete the languages so we can understand

Okay, sir.

After every update, there'll be a glossary.
Thanks.

LordOfNaira:
This guy definitely can write. Poetry and prose on the same page.

Thank you, LONA. Please enjoy.

SPDAZZY:


Thanks for the mention. Présente

Wélcòmë (Hope it is this way?) You're welcome, dear. Enjoy.

stuff46:
"Aure" it is no "Awure", and also in the 19's am not sure if there are bulbs in rooms in Nigeria.

Peotic and intruging i must confess, i love what you are doing with this characters already.

Give me more.

Corrections noted, bro. Thank you. I've delivered.

Divepen1:
unbanned. Just send a mail next time. It would faster that way.

Thanks, mod.

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Silently following with ease

I'll cry for you if you don't mention me next time

Your words are sooo vivid, I could surely learn a thing or two

OluwabuqqyYOLO:

Isn't that sad? Really, I'm hating that Christopher. I'd kill him if I had the power.

You kuku have the power, lol

Of '53, CONT'D

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Kelechi's eyes quivered, like droplets on a zinc. His hands reflexively took to his chest and drummed—like ball bearings bustling in heated oil. His lips dithered indecently and a knot tightened in his stomach. A strange cold taste crept on his tongue and slipped through his throat. He realized his lips were ajar and he shut them. He put off the local torch he carried and immediately dreaded the eerie prick that followed. Then, he ran, his heavy breaths jingling in the cold air—as though a pendulum in motion.

Minutes later, he was back, with two other men. One carried a torch. The other was an English. The other man who had just returned with Kelechi moved closer to what he had claimed to see. It was Sherifah.

Her eyes were shut now, barring the world the bright twinkles they shone. Her little, light face gazed hopelessly at the night, like the curve of an egg. Her head had ceased bleeding, though a sticky red trickle still ran down her head. Her breathing was shallow—very shallow and acutely inconspicuous, like the breathing bubbles of a diver.

'Kai! Suh!' One of the men screamed as her face squinted and folded, like the ripples on water. 'Wallahi, she never die pa!' He guffawed with excitement, his heavily accented voice cried, breaking through the thick, thick fence of wafers that encircled Sherifah's earbuds.

'You mean she's alive?' The white man spoke, the apprehension that had soaked his face going south and a much clearer lightness coming on. The way he spoke must have been unlike his compatriots, for the man who had earlier spoken heard him correctly.

'Yes-suh,' the man answered and bent to her side. He raised her head and and took off her soiled hijab with the utmost care. Then, he lifted her lithe body and looked at the English man as if for directions.

'Take her to Natalie quickly. She is an emergency.'

'Yes-suh!' The other man complied and he took delicate steps forward, his withdrawing silhouette telling the fable of a swaying, cackling duck.

'She must be attended to immediately!' The English barked at the retreating figure.

'John.' (that was the name the English called Kelechi).

'Suh,' he answered quietly, apparently still shaken by the image of an eleven-year-old lying in a crude pool of her sleepy blood.

'You've done well today. You and Ahmad,' 'suh' continued. 'But you should get used to a sight like this. Let's go.'

As they returned home, Kelechi, John, braced his mind. He would join the army later that year.
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Jummai moulded her falling wrapper round her full waist and continued sweeping at the leaves that swaddled the bare expanse of land. The wrapper loosened again and she sighed, heaving as she stood straight and put the wrapper right again. Her eyes watered—like dew in a tumbler—and she sobbed. It reminded her of the nights Christopher had loosened her wrapper and had fiddled with the freckles on her left nipple. She hissed - as strained tears rolled off her face; kicked the broom far from her and ran into the waiting hut.

Later—when the sun had hidden behind the dry, damp clouds, a series of forceful, concurrent knocks slipped into her earbuds - forceful as the breaking of a day; concurrent as the echoes of a bell. Her eyelids fluttered and she rolled onto her other side on the straw bed. The knocks persisted and she ceremoniously got up. Groping, like an headless ant, she lit the locomotive lantern. Then, she put on her hijab.

'Wahe?' She questioned, the words tumbling off her tongue in a slur.

'Ni ne Sanni.'

'Sanni?' She wanted to be sure. The hut was on the outskirts and very few people lived around. The closest house was quite a distance for a four-year-old.

'Eeh.'

'Saya, inazoa,' she returned and unfastened the lock chain from the round, metallic knob. The door pushed in and Sanni came into her hazy sight.

'Inahuni,' she addressed him. Then, she noticed a lanky, boyish figure tilling the earth wish his bare feet, each foot handling the other. His hands were locked behind him and his bald head was bowed, denouncing his butterflies.

'Sheriff?' She gasped, and her hands axiomatically flew to cover her mouth—as though she was scared anything louder would make him disappear. Instantly—as instant as the green on leaves—she was by the boy's side, caressing and pulling his bony cheeks. She kissed him on the fore of his head and tried to catch a fleshy portion of his face this time, but she failed to. A part of her deflated, like the dimples birthed of a suctioned cheek, but she let it go quickly. She ran her hands over his body. He was confidently thin and it showed in his face. She clutched his hands, as firm as a pillar, and led him inside. She smiled at her uncle, her tongue stuck.

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****To Be Continued****

Despirado121:
Silently following with ease

Welcome, bro.

EvaJael:
I'll cry for you if you don't mention me next time

Abeg jor! You promised me something and disappeared.

Debbietiyan:
Your words are sooo vivid, I could surely learn a thing or two

Maybe—maybe. You're welcome.

queenitee:

You kuku have the power, lol

I thought all power belongs to God almighty

OluwabuqqyYOLO:

Abeg jor! You promised me something and disappeared.

I sent queenitee to deliver na as she always does for me. Queenitee,did you divert the package?

EvaJael:

I sent queenitee to deliver na as she always does for me. Queenitee,did you divert the package?

Ehm, I did not meet him at home

OluwabuqqyYOLO:

I thought all power belongs to God almighty

But this one belongs to you

Now I'm here learning new Hausa words keep it coming eager to know the turn out of events. Thumbs up.

Hadampson:
I don arrive... thanks 4 d invite
Lemme quickly put my reading glasses on8)

Evajael, akinwale14, jane1234f, kimberlywest, samyfreshsmooth and queenitee.. come and join me

Itz bin a while guys.. cc: angelinastto, olatex25 and oly23

Tanx bro... just been busy dis days, av miss u guys oo... is good to be back..

OluwabuqqyYOLO:
GLOSSARY (Every word is in Hausa unless stated otherwise) :-

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Wallahi! — By Allah!

Wahe? — Who it it?

Ni ne — I am.

Eeh — Yes.

Saya — Wait.

Inazoa —? I'm coming.

Inahuni — Good evening.

Kai — An exclamation.

Pa — A typical Hausa way of pronouncing 'Fa'.

nice story you got here I said thumbs up. please some few corrections -ina zuwa, ina wuni, baza ka zo nan ba?

olatex25:

Tanx bro... just been busy dis days, av miss u guys oo... is good to be back..

Wow! welcome back bro. Good to have you back

samyfreshsmooth our broda olatex25 is back

This piece is electrifying as a hair dryer, stunning as a traq gun. I throway salute for you op.

Hadampson:
Wow! welcome back bro. Good to have you back

samyfreshsmooth our broda olatex25 is back

baba olatex25 we greet thee

welcome back

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I know it's been long I posted an update and I'm very sorry. I will type as soon as I get my phone charged. Thanks for the love, moderators.

OluwabuqqyYOLO:
I know it's been long I posted an update and I'm very sorry. I will type as soon as I get my phone charged. Thanks for the love, moderators.

Better o. Thank you

OluwabuqqyYOLO:

First follower you were. First lady you are. Thanks much, Annie (will you be my African queen?)

awww!!! am blushing
unfortunately Boo am not an African but thanks for the offer though.
the story line is dope but am kinda confused on the Hausa language. can't you write the story with our general language??
more fountain of wisdom to you dear.

Didn't I promise to update yesterday Lol, it rained yesternight and the flood paid me a great visit. How I wish I could exaggerate!

OluwabuqqyYOLO:
Didn't I promise to update yesterday Lol, it rained yesternight and the flood paid me a great visit. How I wish I could exaggerate!

Issokay o.