Wura's Woodin Adventures: A Novella (The Aso-Ebi Chronicles, Part 2)
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Someone has been stealing expensive jewelry from Alhaja Munirat Rahman, a fabric and jewelry merchant. It is up to Wura Oyelese, her 20-something year old niece, to unmask the culprit.
As she nurtures a budding romance with the self-proclaimed suave efiko, Kola Adegbenro, and pursues the highly-coveted title of Miss UNILAG, will Wura catch the thief?
Sharon Abimbola Salu
Sharon Abimbola Salu grew up in Lagos, Nigeria where she lived until she relocated to the United States of America where she currently resides.Her stories are mostly set in Nigeria, and she writes stories she would like to read. A professed lover of spicy foods, she loves experimenting with new recipes, to the dismay of non-spicy food lovers. Apart from writing, photography is her other hobby.Visit her blog at http://www.sharonsalu.com
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Wura's Woodin Adventures - Sharon Abimbola Salu
Wura's Woodin Adventures: A Novella (The Aso-Ebi Chronicles, Part 2)
By
Sharon Abimbola Salu
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Discover other titles by Sharon Abimbola Salu at Smashwords.com:
Short Stories:
Stay in Berlin
The Piano Book
Nosa's Wedding
Three Mangoes
The Last Komole
1, 2, 3 Disappear
The Life and Times of Two Flared Nostrils
Novellas:
Bewaji's Ankara Adventures: A Novella (The Aso-Ebi Chronicles, Part 1)
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
About the Author
One
A young woman crossed a busy road in Apapa, and narrowly missed being knocked down by a motorcycle. The okada driver swerved just in time to avoid colliding with the absentminded girl. She paid no attention to the vehement curses he hurled at her, and kept walking. She did not see him crash, mere seconds later, into a pile of empty cartons in front of a shop. Thankfully, nobody was hurt and the okada driver lived to see another day.
After his crash, his cursing subsided significantly, and he began to speculate as to the cause of his almost
accident. His superstitious mind readily presented the answer: the girl who had crossed his path minutes before. He concluded that she was a witch, a principality or worse still, an evil spirit in human form, on a mission. The same mouth that had just uttered multiple curses said a quick prayer and the okada driver hurried along. The girl, unaware of the terror she had inspired in this man's heart, continued on her way, still deep in thought.
The young woman in question was a petite - actually, 'short' was the correct word - woman in her early 20s. Her thick hair was locked into tight braids, special cornrows popularly known as Ghana weaving. The way the skin on her forehead was tightly drawn was irrefutable proof that the hairstyle was fresh. She was on her way back from the salon where she had gone to get her hair braided. It was while she was there that her friend and classmate, Chinyere, had given her some very bad news: not only was she on the verge of being disqualified from the Mr. and Miss UNILAG Beauty Pageant, but she was also lacking a pageant-winning accessory: jewelry. Chinyere Uba, who brought her the news, was the only woman on the pageant planning committee. The rest of the committee members were men and most of the contestants, if not all, were their past or current girlfriends. In fact, Kunle Balogun, who was the Committee Chairman, was reported to have four of the girls he was dating simultaneously as contestants. But that shameless polygamist was not her immediate concern. Her potential disqualification was.
Wuraola Oyelese was a second year student at the Department of English at the University of Lagos, otherwise known as UNILAG. However, she had gotten into UNILAG as a pre-degree student.
The original plan was to study law, but after scoring below the JAMB cut-off mark four times in a row, and after dealing with the pain of seeing junior girls she used to boss around in secondary school, pass the same exam and enroll in different undergraduate programs, she decided, for the sake of her sanity and optimal mental health, to initiate Plan D.
Plan B
was to take the SATs and study abroad, but no one would pay the school fees. Plan C
was to join a jazz band as a backup singer, but she knew her father would skin her alive if he so much as smelt the idea. The look her mother had given her when she jokingly brought up the idea was what made her decide that Plan C
was crazy, and needed to be snuffed out. So, Plan D
had surfaced: enroll in a pre-degree course and somehow try to get into an undergraduate program. Eventually. That plan was the one that worked.
Wura was just rounding off her first Jambite
year, when she heard of the Mr. and Miss UNILAG Beauty Pageant. To tell the truth, she was less concerned about Mr. UNILAG, and more interested in the Miss UNILAG part. Recalling how she had won Miss Scruples and several other awards in secondary school, she decided to contest. She would be representing the Department of English.
At the time she turned in her application, all students of the university were allowed to contest. But now, according to reports from the meeting held by the student-run planning committee, they were on the verge of making a decision to eliminate contestants who came in as pre-degree students.
According to Chinyere, this idea originated from one of Kunle's girlfriends. The other three girlfriends, who were also contestants, had come into the school as pre-degree students. This bad belle girlfriend was the only one of Kunle's girls who came into UNILAG based on her JAMB results. Whether her JAMB results were real and not fabricated was a totally different question. The school campus was rife with rumors that she did not even take JAMB, but how were rumors going to help Wura's case?
Wura was furious that she was being roped into a plot masterminded by a jealous girlfriend. Another woman might have quit the competition at that point, but not Wura. She was very competitive and that nervous, restless energy was what drove her in moments when defeat seemed inevitable.
At that moment, she was deep in thought, analyzing the best possible way to handle the situation. Strangely enough, she was not on her way to school. No, she was on her way to visit Alhaja Rahman, her aunt.
Before she left the salon, at the moment when she was sure the girl braiding her hair was braiding even her hair follicles, she had received a phone call from her mother, Mrs. Oyelese. Her mother wanted Wura to pick up some yards of lace fabric from Alhaja Rahman, Mrs. Oyelese's younger sister.
After paying the hairdresser for intentional infliction of pain, as well as a brand new hairdo, she set out for Apapa GRA, where her aunt lived.
Alhaja Rahman or Alhaja
as most people called her, was a very successful business woman who traded in textiles, jewelry and similar accessories. Her store was regularly stocked with the trendiest fabrics ranging from the least expensive to the downright overpriced. With all the social events that Lagosians and Nigerians generally were known for, it was no wonder that her business was thriving. Women, who never wore the same outfit twice, patronized Alhaja's shop to find those one-of-a-kind fabrics.
Although the Ankara craze was sweeping across the nation that year, 2008 was also the year that saw another kind of fabric stealing, or perhaps sharing,