GOSSIP CHILD 1

Sasha was always ready to gush out whatever she heard. Her mum and her best friend continually sat together under a tree in the middle of the compound and talk one after the other of every person in the community. Sasha as stubborn as she was, would on all occasion, eavesdrop on their conversation, then spread the gossip.

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Today, her mum and her beloved friend, affectionately called kwasi’s mama were talking of a newcomer in their neighbourhood. The newcomer was a foreign lady who could hardly make head and tail of the language of that community. You might be right to call it a birth defect because the new lady in the hood had an extremely big fat ugly nose. Sasha’s mum and her friend referred to the nose as ‘’nwenentipoli’’ which in their dialect meant big fat ugly nose.

The next day, the foreign lady went to kwasi’s mama’s joint to buy food. Sasha was there and upon recognising the lady, she decided to spill the beans. ‘’sis Naomi, sis Naomi’’, she called her but she did not hear. ‘’Sis Naomi, sis Naomi, my mother and kwasi’s mum are saying that your nose is ‘’nwenentipoli’’, she shouted on top of her voice. ‘’ children would always be children, look at her shouting for nothing’’. If only she knew what that word meant!
She would have stopped buying the food and would have given kwasi’s mum a hefty slap.

Kwasi’s mum reported the incidence to Sasha’s mother. On that fateful day, Sasha was giving the beating of her life. She was surely not going to gossip again. But hey, you can never be certain.

Gossip ends at a wise person's ears. Kill the habit.

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