NEW LIFE - Chapter Ninety-four

Okuata's hut was a sedate hut. It had different orange trees surrounding the compound with some shrubs scattered around by the corner of the hut. She had a small vegetable garden at the back of her hut where she planted tomatoes, cassava and some bitter leaves which she sold at the market place. In front of her hut, she kept three bamboo chairs were visitors sat down when they came to visit her. 

Ifeme sat on one of the bamboo chairs while Akwaudo sat on another bamboo chair beside her. She was nursing a small boy that was lying on her laps. She tied a thick wrapper that covered from her breast to her knees and constantly adjusted the wrapper when her son pulled it downwards. Her daughter whose name was Ngozi was sitting quietly in the threshold, fanning hot African pear that were spread in a small woven mat. Small logs of firewood that had been lopped off leaned on the wall close to Ngozi. The  were black at the ends as if they had been used before to cook food tha