Sudden Lightening
‘It is the sun that should reap the fruit of the sky’ This proverbial saying was the song of daddy when we were in the village. He always said this while working. I used to ask him the meaning of his saying. Maybe I would learn from it. But he assured me that I would know it myself when I grew up. As a curious boy, I was not happy for the reply he gave me because I considered myself different from others. If I weigh how my friends rated me high when we were talking, the sky could not host the resemblance. I talked from the tongue of daddy. Though, he had not revealed the truth of the proverb for me, I pretended as if I knew it and I continued the journey of my life. I was seven years old in 1972 when daddy took me to primary school. It was a year of milestone to me because all my mates in the village were in primary four. Even Sanjo, the son of my daddy’s friend, wa...