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“Akosua, where are you and Maakua, I'm home and no one is around. I called Ma, but she isn't answering. Kamdyn and Kwabena won't tell me where you girls are. Where is my daughter?" He asked angrily
“Kwame, meny3 ready for ntokwa biara( I'm not ready for any trouble). We've been at 37 military hospital for a week, I've been calling your phone it's either switched off or no answer. Maakua is sick, you can come to see her when you like, tchew." She said as she dropped the call and went back inside the ward.
Maakua was doing better than before but the doctor wanted to monitor her progress so she had been admitted. Kwabena, Kamdyn, Abena, Adwoa and her mother-in-law had come over to visit the little girl during the week. Her mother-in-law stayed there with her to watch over the girl.
Kwame changed his clothes and then prepared his daughter's favourite, jollof rice with gizzard, garnished with vegetables, and also got her a pack of vitamin drink.<
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“Auntie," Akosua called to the woman who raised her. “Aw, me ba(My child), it shall be well, take heart." The elder woman said sitting beside her.“I hope so, I really do." She said as her aunt wiped her eyes.“Where's your husband?" Her uncle asked entering with a basket of food.“I dunno, " She stated.“Is everything alright between you two?" He asked again.“He changed." She said as Maakua entered the ward with her grandmother.“My in-laws, you're welcome." The woman greeted.“Thank you." Her aunt said.“Ma, I brought your favourite ice cream, grandma says it would help you feel better." She handed it to her as she pulled her towards her and hugged her tightly.“Thanks, Sweetheart," Akosua added.Kwame had made his cheating evident to his wife. He no longer treated her right and always came back with lipstick stains on his shirt or half-used condoms in his pocket.She no longer was happy in her home. She found solace in the little girl and her work.“Eleanor, do you know the man yo
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“Kwame, what's going on? You've refused to eat my food for the past to weeks what's the matter?" Akosua asked one night after preparing dinner after coming home from work exhausted. Only for her food to be rejected again.“Maame, ma men dwene me ho oo, ( Woman, let me be), oh so you think I don't know you killed my babies with your bad luck and evil omen. You're a which that's what you are." He shouted at her.“In fact, leave my house baayifo) (Witch!)" He shouted packing her stuff.“Kwame, where is all this coming from?" She asked shocked.Just yesterday we were all lovey-dovey and even shared a passionate night together after being sex starved ever since the incidence. Who is polluting my husband's mind? She thought to herself as Kwame pushed her out of the room.Maakua heard the noise from her parent's room. The 10-year-old child was intelligent and smart even when she had not been told anything, she knew her parent's marriage was failing.“Da, what is going on?" She asked as she me
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Akosua and Maakua had been hoping Kwame would come back to his senses and come for them. Even if he didn't want her, at least he could come and check up on his daughter.But he did none of that. She had heard he had gone for another woman whom he was living with.“Ma, how are we going to survive without Da?" Maakua asked her stepmother at dinner one night.“My dear, we will be fine, very much fine. I have money saved up from years back and besides, I work. And my salary is enough to cater for us both." She told the girl.“How about my school fees?" She asked knowing how expensive that was.“Don't worry dear, that's why I've applied for the scholarship for you. If you get it, it will take you through to Senior High, now that you're in primary 5." She explained to the girl.Because of how intelligent and smart she was, she skipped primary four and was promoted to primary five.“Maate(I've heard you), Ma." She said as she proceeded to wash the dishes.“Ei, Eleanor so you didn't listen to
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“Esi is there any problem? Aha yi nso er ( What are you doing here)?" She asked her. She had gone out of her class to visit the loo and met her younger cousin with a couple of people.“Sister Akosua, there's no problem. I just came to escort my friend to meet her elder sister for a parcel." She explained. Esi was in her third year of university, she was currently studying Pharmacy at University of Ghana, Legon in the Greater Accra region of Ghana.“Okay, dear, " Akosua added as she called her to her class and gave her Gh¢500.00 for upkeep.“Thank you very much, Sister Akosua, my God will bless you for me," Esi added.“Amen dear, go well and study hard okay?" She advised.“I will, just for you p3." She teased her cousin waving her goodbye.“Have you finished with the work I gave you?" She asked her students.“Yes, Madam!" The kids shouted.“Okay, let's continue." She said.Abena's class had a substitute teacher since she was almost due in a few weeks. And Akosua was genuinely happy for
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“Baafi, what at all made you leave Akosua behind, how can a woman who conceived a child for 9-months abandon the child because someone somewhere claimed she was evil." Her brother, Akoto scolded her. She had come to him to help her go and ask her daughter for forgiveness. Akoto, it's all Kwapong's fault. He's the cause of all this.“What did your late husband do, that your apportioning the blame to him?" Her brother angrily asked.“When the woman came to tell us Akosua was a witch, I didn't believe and I told him to forget about all these superstitious beliefs that my child wasn't a witch. At first, he sided with me and then he changed, always shouting at her for every little thing she did. I wasn't happy with how he treated her and always reprimanded him until one day he claimed he saw Akosua stabbing him with a knife in his dream. I told him that, sometimes our enemies appear in our dreams to try to harm us but with the faces of our loved ones. But he still insisted she was evil. We
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