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The Pandemonium: a short story.

 THE PANDEMONIUM Standing at the doorway of our house, I knew the temperature was rather cold but my armpits were sweating continuously. My left hand was somewhere resting somewhere in my white jumper pocket. The other one was hanging at the other side squeezing itself.  I was trying to figure out how to avenge. That was the thought that came to my mind when we had just heard the news of my father’s death.  When the news struck my mother’s ears, she let go of the knife she was slicing okra with. She tried to control herself but to no avail. Okra was father’s favorite.  ‘Arna, the infidels, have killed him’ was the statement of the person who brought the sad news. I came out shortly after the man had left.  ‘Wallahi I must avenge,’ I soliloquized,  even though I knew father would not have wished me to avenge his death. I knew, too, that it was impossible to control myself against it. ‘Revenge has never pleased the soul and so I will never,’ my father once said. ‘Revenge never brings bac
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THE POPULARITY OF KWANKWASO AND KWANKWASYYA SLOGAN

THE KWANKWASO AND THE POPULARITY OF -SIYYA SLOGAN THE –IYYA SLOGAN THOUGH THE SUFFIX –IYYA IS NOT NELOGISED BY KWANKWASO’S SUPPORTERS (KWANKWASIYYA) THE SUFFIX HAS BEEN POLEOLOGISED QUIET A LONG TIME IN THE HAUSA VOCABULARY. THE SUFFIX ACTUALLY MEANS A SYSTEM AS –ISM IS. SOCIALISM, CAPITALISM ETC. DIMOKRADIYYA. IT CAN ALSO MEAN NOUN FORM OF SOME VERBS IN HAUSA KNOW, SANI STRESSING THE FIRST SYLLABLE (E.G YA SANI [HE KNOWS). NOT THE NOUN SANI STRESSING THE SECOND SYLLABLE (SANI –KNOW [VERB] ). SANAYYA. SINCE SANI ENDS IN ‘I’, THE LAST ‘I’ IS NORMALLY CHANGED TO ‘A’. AS IN SANI-SANAYYA, CINIKI-CINIKAYYA, KI-KIYAYYA. HOWEVER, IF THE BASE WORD DOES NOT END IN ‘I’, THEN THE LAST WORD IS CHANGED TO ‘I’ OR ‘Y’. AS IN KI- KIYAYYA, BI-BIYAYYA, CI-CIYAYYA. SO WHAT DOES KWANKWASO MEAN WHEN HE (OR HIS SUPPORTERS) COINED THE WORD KWANKWASIYYA. KWANKWASIYYA, I THINK, WAS COINED TO MEAN A SYSTEM. KWANKWASO REFERRED HIS ADMINISTRATION AS KWANKWASIYYA. THAT IS KWANKWASO SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. I HAVE NEVER KNOWN ANY ONE WHOM THE -IYYA HAD EVER BEEN USED WITH HIS NAME BEFORE HIM. TODAY THERE ARE MULTIPLE –YYA IN THE NORTHERN POLITICAL PLATFORM. THIS ALSO INCLUDES HIS SUCCESSOR, GANDUJE AKA GANDUJIYYA.  
TELL US THE –SIYYA OF YOUR PLACE
I CLAIM NO INFALLIBILITY: SUGGESTIONS D CORRECTIONS ARE ALWAYS WELCOMED. .

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