MALLAM SAMBO’S PRESCRIPTION
HOME Keep running in the reading race……. CHAPTER TWO AN AFRICAN NIGHT OF ENTERTAINMENT MALLAM SAMBO’S PRESCRIPTION Shehu sat in his study. He heard a knock on the door and one of his servants came in and said: ‘in all the time I’ve lived in his town I’ve before seen such a girl as I saw today at the gate of Mallam Audu; ‘Which Mallam Audu?’ asked Shehu. ‘The one who lives down the road.’ ‘But I do not think that Mallam Audu has a daughter’. The servant said: “Do you remember that about ten years ago Mallam Audu had his daughter betrothed to a young man; this is the same girl who has now grown up’. ‘But why has she not been coming out of her father’s house all this time?’ ‘Because Mallam Audu is very strict with her’ ‘Go then. Find out for certain who she is. I shall indeed be surprised if Mallam Audu, and old man, has such a daughter.’ The servant made enquiries. They found that Mallam Audu was indeed the, and that the girl’s name was Zainobe. They came back and tol...