Gidan Uncle Complete Hausa Novels & Stories

"You know you are no longer a child. You are a grown up female. I did you well by raising you up isn't it?" I nodded my head. Why was he sounding this way. Where they planning on sending me out of the house? I glanced at aunty lydia and ogechi as they both eyed me. "You are of age and when a girl is of age, you know what comes next"my uncle said. It was like he was trying to look for the right words to pass a message across to me in a way that it wouldn't hurt me. "I don't understand uncle"i replied obviously confused.

Me: lovely dad My name is funny right, well it's an Igala name. From a tribe in Kogi State, Nigeria. My dad insisted we all bear our tribal names instead of English ones so that we would always remember our roots. My name Unugwa is actually a short form of Ojonugwa, which means God be praised. My friends here found it really hard to pronounce that long version, in fact when they gave it a try, it came out that they were pronouncing something else. So dad allowed me to short form it. That was when I was five years. I actually love the way they pronounce Unugwa. It's really classic I pecked my mom

"Uncle!" Zed called his uncle, Deguzman. He just finished to talk to Talia. He is currently in the backyard garden of his uncle's house and he saw the man walking out of the gate, heading to his car like going somewhere. Deguzman looked at him with his brows knotted big time.

Immediately the man left all of them kept quiet for a while before Mallam Audu speaks up " Habiba am sorry about what my brother said. I know you're hurt by his words but please do take heart, don't take his words to your heart, I know by now your used to it"Mallam Audu speaks before he turned towards his daughter "Tehzeeb don't take what your Uncle said to heart and focus on your studies. None of them can force you to get married when am still alive and breathing, In Sha Allah I will stand by you and protect you. I don't know how long I have in this world, all I can give you is the best education that even when am not alive you can take care of yourself and your mother"

(who are you looking for), the gateman asked in his Hausa intonation. "Please, am looking for Uncle Richard that's stays here", Rose explained. "You dey find Oga Richard, I dey come to make I call am," (You are asking for my boss Mr. Richard, just a minute, let me call him) the gateman said as he closed the gate and went into the house. A few minutes later he came out with Uncle Richard. "Welcome Rose, how is everything over there? How are your parents? Please come inside", Uncle Richard said as he and the gateman helped her with her bags.

And slowly, the other members of the council walked away. Bola gnashed his teeth and walked to the opposite end of the circle. He saw a dried log on the sand and sat on it, not knowing what to do next. ‘The Boy is not worth saving.’ Bola grumbled and shifted his weight on the log he had been seating on. He could almost see the face of Pa Uche, as his beards dances under his jaw bone, when he speaks. How could he say he was Ginika’s uncle when he doesn’t care if the boy lived or died?

In my mind, ‘this hausa babes can fall hand with their dressing sha’… She: Good morning sir… Me: Good morning… How was your night? She: It was fine sir… Me: Wait, how do you say ‘how was your night in Hausa’, because I’m trying to learn the language o… She: **laughs** You say ‘antashi lafia’… Me: **i try saying it after her** antashi lafia… Hmm, at least I’ve learnt one today. So, antashi lafia? She: **laughs** Lafia lau…

" Did Adam forget that Yara was the most pampered youngest child in the Candra family? ---- Author’s note: -‘Om’ has the same meaning as uncle. -‘Tante’ has the same meaning as aunt. -Pill Kina are drugs to prevent or treat malaria (an endemic disease in eastern Indonesia) which is deadly,

he is looked up to by many and has become a great ancestral figure. UMUNNA'M: it is translated as 'my brothers' but he doesn't just mean his biological brothers, he means everyone he had ever looked up to(he considered them brothers). that's why he said "have faith in me" NDI'ICHË: translated 'elders' but really means 'elders in council'. In igbo land, they have as much deciding power as the king. AMADIOHA: the guy that gets his name yelled more it is spoken. he is the igbo god of thunder and one to be feared.

“What? Did I say something wrong? I didn’t mean that I wanted to be a part of their life—if you think that’s too fast or— Eveline tried to fight the tears, but she was smiling hard too, so hard her cheeks hurt. “It’s not that,” she said between sniffles. “I’m just—I’m just glad that my baby’s going to have another uncle. That’s all.” “Oh.” She nodded. “Yeah.” Peter squeezed her hand. “Not just any uncle,” he declared, but the coolest uncle ever.” She smiled. “The jury’s out on that one too.” “Then I’ll just have to bribe them with the best toys ever,” Peter said, laughing.