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MY LOVE JOURNEY: The first boy who made my heart beat.

April 26, 2021 No Comments

MY LOVE JOURNEY.The first boy who made my heart beat. This is a story I never shared. This is a story about teenage love. it explains how to teenagers in a village setting fall in love. There was this 3rd term holiday, I can’t remember the class in which I was but I know I was in secondary school. During that holiday, we had inter-village football matches. Youths from Bermin, Bambe, Ntale, Epen, Bajwe would visit our village, Babubock for 2 days to play a friendly. For this experience, my quarter, Muabwe Aka Petit-Douala was playing with Bermin. That fateful Sunday, as usual, the ladies gathered at the president’s house. our village girls had to cook to entertain their guests. I also took part in the cooking you know. I remember we cooked Ndolle, plantain, fufu, soup and fried some fresh fish. After we were done with the cooking, I…

Childhood June 16, 2020

International Day of the African child 2020, Senge’s Ordeal

Recent happenings worldwide have proven the African child is an “Endangered specie” of human beings. This is not because they will soon go out of extinct, but because they are haunted everywhere they go, even in their homeland. According to studies published on dw.com, wars only, killed 5…

Childhood June 7, 2020

Gender based violence in African homes with women as victims

My friend I di tell you this story so I di feel as to cry, If I member tin wey my papa do my Mami ei dey like say make I take knife kill my papa. Gender-based violence in African Homes is real ya. Gender-based violence in African…

Childhood April 28, 2020

First Chattere: Part Three

Hey guys, welcome to enjoy First Chattere: Part Three. We hope you have read parts one and two. If you haven’t, you can find part one here and part two here. First Chattere: Parts three, two and one tell stories of how some love relationships in the African…

Childhood April 26, 2020

First Chattere: Part Two

Hello and welcome or welcome back to Eduke’sInk. This is the continuation of “First Chattere-the first boy to ask me for a love relationship”. As promised in chapter one, we are continuing with chapter two today. Take a seat and enjoy First Chattere: Part Two.” In case…

Childhood April 24, 2020

First “Chattere”-First boy to ask me for a love Relationship

Though it’s common with almost every African girl in her puberty stage, few can talk about their First “Chattere”-First boy to ask them for a love relationship. Many of our readers have asked to read about our experience of a “chattere.” This story of a first chattere may…

Childhood February 4, 2020

GrandMa’s storytelling time, she tells why death exists.

GrandMa’s storytelling time is a piece recounting some of the beautiful village moments with grandparents. Grandma’s stories and sweet food were some of the things that kept us awake late at night in the village during our younger days. How sweet these days were. Back then in the late-90s,…

Childhood December 24, 2019

Grandparents’ superstitions, I am still waiting to take effect in my life

What will mussa not see at the gate? You just needed to do one of their don’ts and gbaaammm! you received a slap from grandma or grandpa. The don’ts we’re just too many. At times I used to think they didn’t enjoy their youthful age that was why…

Childhood December 13, 2019

Why long vacations were sweet in Cameroonian villages

Find out in this post how the Sweet Long vacations in the villages used to be in Cameroon, particularly my village, Babubock. I know there are similar experiences elsewhere. Feel free to share yours in the comments section. June, July and August used to be some of the most…

Childhood December 4, 2019

Why Christmas is sweet in the village

Christmas is sweet in my village When I think of Christmas, the first that comes to mind is new clothes and shoes, rice, chicken, baptism, stew, much meat, balloons, “bonbon”, brown money and homecoming for those who were out of the village. One week to Christmas, pigs, goats,…