‘We saw your betrothed in the house of the wealthy Mallam Shehu
HOME Keep running in the reading race……. AN AFRICAN NIGHT OF ENTERTAINMENT Zainobeislovesick ‘We saw your betrothed in the house of the wealthy Mallam Shehu. We do not know why she has gone there……. Meanwhile Mallam Shehu greeted the girl and told her that she had been wounding him. ‘I have no time for long words; said the girl. ‘I left home under a pretext; my father had forbidden me to come out in the afternoon. He will be very angry if he finds out that I left home. Say what you have to say, and let me go’. ‘Why do you speak to me like that? Do you not like me? ‘If I disliked you, would I leave my home to come alone to your house? Tell me what you have to say; the time is short’. Mallam Shehu: ‘I want you to be my wife. Zainobe laughed: ‘The question of marriage cannot arise between us’. NEXT PREVIOUS