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| A German Sheppard |
With a concerned look and a dirty pale yellow bowl of water in her hand, Mama Sadiq bent over the sick little child, as he crouched vomiting and defecating on the bare floor in front of the house where she lived with her husband, Nurudeen Ajibike at Irewolede Estate, Idiomo, a suburb of Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Satisfied that the ailing toddler was done, she rinsed his mouth and washed his buttocks with a flush of the water and frisks of her left hands. And then beckoning to a mongrel lying in the shade of her Blacksmith-husband's workshop adjacent to the open space in front of the humble tenement, she called: "Agbon! Agbon !! Agbon!!! Wagba, wagba, wagba."
The hound sprang to its feet and hastened to devour with relish the vomit and fecal meal to which he
was invited, as the Blacksmith's wife led the little boy inside the house.....Read more after the cut
