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ByMoyo Okediji

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***This is a story that my Luo friend told me. She says it’s from among the Luo people of Kenya.

In Yoruba we call it “Àǹfààní àdúgbò.”

Please help me translate Àǹfààní àdúgbò to Oyinbo.

Wife 1: Our husband has not yet returned home?

Wife 2: No o. It is now 11 pm.

Wife 1: Where did he go?

Wife 2: I don’t know o.

Wife 1: The way our husband uses our plantain outside this home….

Wife 2: …we thank God it’s not like soap, otherwise, it would all be finished by now.

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