Bumawi English Novels & Stories

Sorry for bugging in like this, but kindly allow me to take a seat,’ the visitor said exhibiting an authoritarian tone. ‘It’s fine sir, my office is almost a public one, anyone is free to come at any time.’ ‘Have you ever heard of Ubomba mwibala theory?’ the man asked making himself comfortable. ‘That sounds Bemba, is it?’ Ima asked. ‘Yes and you are Chewa not so with a Bemba mother.’ The last was a statement not a question. ‘What does it mean Sir if I may ask,’ the young girl asked exposing her white teeth.

"Is barawo." "And how do you say 'you are'?" I asked "Kai ne." "Kai ne barawo," I tell him. "Ina Ni mace. Ina Ni…Tiger Kambori." He smiles widely this time. "You shall be speakin' fluently in no time. Most people say 'dat Hausa is a difficult language for correct pronunciation, but you seem like a natural."

As a corpers posted to the far north, far away from my Ekiti state, it was not easy at all. I could not speak Hausa, the few words I learned in the camp, I use to buy things in the market. Words like: Ina kwana- Good morning. Na wan? - How much? It was quite difficult living in a new environment. The people though friendly find it difficult to communicate with me. They will say: Ba a Hausa meaning Cannot speak Hausa. Sometimes they will ask you: Akwai Hausa? meaning Can you speak Hausa? I will always reply Ba bu meaning No or Kadan Kadan meaning A little.

Tokpe said as soon as Chisom finished talking, which caused us to burst into an outrageous laughter "Tokpe you sef your wahala too much"I said in pidgin "Abi o" Chisom concurred "So, what do you say my lady, shall we catwalk it out" Bimbo said in her crazy British accent "Yea we shall" I answered as we all catwalked out of the dorm , including the guys .

--speak of the lion's den. "Umaru, wetin these ones do?"- "Umaru, what did these ones do?" Koboko- a woven cane "Na inside bush I find all of them, na work dem wan go do" - I found them inside the forest reserve, they wanted to go have carnal knowledge of themselves" "Chai!, when I dey una age, na wheel I dey roll for street, children nowadays ehh"- "(exclaims) when I was you guys' age, I was still rolling bicycle wheels down the street, children of nowadays"

Zita asked will they were eating. "Yes, it is French. Cameroon is a bilingual country. That is, we spoke both French and English alongside our native language. Paul said. " I have always like to learn different languages and now that am here, I will make sure to learn how to speak French too. Zita said with so much determination in her voice. " An I will happily teach you and your friends. Paul said". "You know French? Stephanie asks this time " Yes, I do. Paul answered " then we can't wait to learn how to speak it. Zita said.

_______*________* *Abi means right {A Nigerian slang} *&** Nah and haba are words of protest {Nice slangs} ****Ehn is a word of exclamation

she remembered his complaints and how he had cringed when she snapped back angrily at him, urging him to remember he was a Nigeria citizen. "Tinu love, Welcome darl, how has the day been ? " Bambi asked, encircling the sitted lady's hair with a large, white towel as she stepped further with her daughter. "Extremely great, mum. Can see there's quite much to do today. " Tinu guessed. "Exactly. Business, you know." Bambi laughed. "Business indeed! " Tinu laughed along with her mum's bustling voice, finally settling down on one of the empty hydraulic chairs.

” run, bomb I dey come,run,all of you run ” Aliyu said swiftly as Tabitha woke him up when we got to Tabitha’s car and everyone bursted into laughter, he has already slept inside the car when we got there, he was even drooling, Tabitha had to hit him hard in order to wake him up after many feeble attempt which didn’t yield any result. I know he was dreaming, maybe one that involves those heartless terrorist ( boko haram ) in it. ” you I don finish, small madam ” he finally said gathering his wit ” oga madam I don vex quataquata ,she have call me, she I con ask of you but I tell say you I go your friend’s place ” he added with his hausa pidgin English which only Tabitha and I understand but o

" She knelt down to greet them. "How're you Bimbo, omo Yoruba." Aisha tried to speak the Yoruba language but it sounded funny, Ben laughed it off and corrected her. "I'm very well ma." Bimbo replied shyly. "Wait, are you Yoruba?" Ben asked her. "Yes ma." She answered.