Hausa Novels & Stories

“So, where’s my rose from? From your beautiful accent…I know it’s somewhere from Africa so, spill” He’s already deploying possessive weapons like ‘my’. I waver and lower my eyes as I shudder with light tension, inhaling slowly. I try to focus on ignoring what he’s making my body go through as I provide him with an answer, “From West Africa, Nigeria precisely.” Henry hums while I continue to blabber anxiously, “I lived in Abuja and, I um…belong to the ‘Khalid Clan wolf pack’. The Alpha is my older cousin-”

"In Renatus, you all left the ways of the old world, but here, we keep most of it, the culture and languages that is." "Like the Dionysus?" Sadik made a disgusted face, "No. They are an abomination to languages." Then with a normal expression, said, "People here speak their ethnicity's langauges. In the past, people were not all unified in Greek form but from different countries and all that. Here, they speak their langauges to one another." "What did you speak to him?" "Hausa," Sadik replied with a smile "I am Nigerian, and so is he."

The business with Aisha was to please Nana, something I believed he regretted till the day he was killed. I went to my room and broke my Asusu (piggy bank in the Hausa language); I had about fifty banks. I broke one for Nana and what I had was more than what they needed, but I gave it to them anyway with extra just in case they would need something when Mai'Aljanu arrived. I had to give them the extra because I doubted I would have the chance to help them discreetly again. Nana, Kawu, Aisha and Mai'Karfi were grateful. I saw hope in Aisha's eyes.

It’s not a wardrobe really it’s a whole other room. I follow Hannah into the room, my jaw hanging open in amazement. She looks at me and laughs. “I wish you could see your face right now” she tells me. Then her eyes go wide “I am so sorry Ma’am I am being so informal with you.” She says stepping back and lowering her head a little “No, no! go back to how you were and always be like that with me” I almost yell at her. “And please, for the love of the goddess please call me Nova and not ma’am or your highness.”