‘Who is this Mallam Shehu, and what does he want with me?’
HOME Keep running in the reading race……. AN AFRICAN NIGHT OF ENTERTAINMENT Mallamsambo'sprescription CONT “I have grown up to think of Abu Bakir as my husband; my parents and the parents of Abu Bakir arranged it all when I was a child playing in the sand; was the message she sent him. The news of Mallam Shehu’s demand soon got Abu Bakir. He could not eat; he could do nothing throughout that day until he had spoken to her. ‘Zainobe, I have heard that the richest man in this town wants to marry you’. “And what did your informer tell you my reply was to him?” ‘If heard alright, they said you told him that you would marry no one else but me; but Zainobe, am afraid of women. Women are like water, and horse’. ‘I don’t understand your proverb’. ‘Women are like water, because you cross a stream in the dry season and when you return in the rains the same stream will drown you. If you love a horse very much and you feed her, when you come to ride her, she’ll throw you down ...