About Ba Sonta Nake Ba Book One

Ba Sonta Nake Ba Book One Complete Hausa Novel is an emotional Hausa family drama about poverty, forced marriage, rejection, sacrifice, education, motherhood, humiliation, and the silent suffering of women and children in difficult homes.

The story introduces Fatima Hassan, whom her mother calls Zareefa. She is around ten to eleven years old and preparing for common entrance examination, but poverty makes even small school fees look impossible.

Her mother, Bintu, struggles to protect her and keep her in school, while her father shows no real care for her education or welfare. In the family house, the other wives and their children mock Zareefa and her mother, making their lives painful and lonely.

Ba Sonta Nake Ba Book One English Translation

Fatima Begins Her Story

My name is Fatima, but my mother calls me Zareefa. At this time, I am not more than ten or eleven years old, and we are preparing to write common entrance examination at school.

Today, since I returned from school, I have been crying because the humiliation I suffered was too much. It was not the first time I had been humiliated, but today’s own stayed deeply in my heart.

Uniforms were brought to our school and distributed from our hardworking governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. The package included a school bag, notebooks, textbooks, crayons, pens, sandals, socks, and other things a student would need.

But I was skipped because I had not paid two hundred naira PTA fee, even though I was among those who needed the items most because my uniform was already worn out and torn.

The Pain Of Two Hundred Naira

They never understood where my mother would get two hundred naira to give me.

She struggled to get even thirty naira in the morning. Sometimes she gave me twenty naira to buy alale from Maman Dije in our