About Babu So Mi Yakawo Kishi Book One

Babu So Mi Yakawo Kishi Book One Complete Hausa Novel is an emotional
Hausa family drama about jealousy, hatred, polygamous family conflict, migration,
upbringing, love, destiny, and the powerful effect of parents’ choices on children.

The story introduces Anam, also known as Juwairiyya, the only daughter of Usman and
Humairah. She grows up in Malaysia with deep love from her parents, but she has little
interest in Nigeria because of the discomfort and family tension she associates with it.

The second major part of the story explains the long history of the Shareff family.
Usman’s mother, Juwairiyya, suffers hatred from her co-wives. Later, Usman grows up,
succeeds abroad, and helps raise Shareff, a boy from the same family whose upbringing is
affected by jealousy, manipulation, and family rivalry.

Babu So Mi Yakawo Kishi Book One English Translation

Anam Refuses To Go To Nigeria

The sound of crying rose slowly, like someone deliberately singing sorrow. But from the
way the crying came out, it was clear that the person had cried for a long time and had
reached exhaustion.

I could not bear it, so I entered the medium-sized house, which contained every comfort
and luxury needed for a good life.

The sitting room was large, masha Allah. Yet despite its size, I did not meet anyone
inside. I became silent, thinking:

“Then where is this crying sound coming from?”

Since there was no one to answer me, I began looking around the sitting room. Surely, the
sound was not coming from there. My heart told me that the cry I heard came from a room
near a window, so I moved further inside.

The sound of footsteps coming down the decorated stairs drew my attention. A wealthy,
dignified woman with the appearance of a Nigerian Fulani woman came down calmly. Her
dressing was modest and graceful, making her look honorable before anyone who saw her.

I never expected that she could even say “come, let me kill you” in Hausa, but to my
surprise, I heard her clear voice call:

“Anam!”

Her voice became harsher when the person she called did not come out.

“Anam! If you allow me to enter where you are, be sure your body will smell before you
leave this country. Foolish girl, one who has no pride in herself. Who rejects their own
roots? Even if you cry tears of blood, you must go to Nigeria and stay there. If you
annoy me, wallahi, you will return there permanently, and your connection with this
country will only be for visits.”

The crying grew louder again, making me turn quickly.

Anam Appears

A beautiful black beauty appeared. She was not much like the woman in body shape, though
there was a small resemblance in blood connection.

From her appearance, one could easily think she was no more than seventeen years old. But
knowing how some people with such bodies can hide their real age, I could not confidently
judge her age.

She was not tall. She had a small body and a short frame. But she was truly beautiful.
Even with the crying that had swollen her eyes, her beauty still appeared clearly behind
her thin white glasses.

Her eyebrows were full, and her nose was long. In short, the girl was beautiful, masha
Allah.

Tears continued flowing down her cheeks like an opened tap.

The woman glaring at her said harshly:

“Swallow that crying before I come and beat sense into you, foolish girl.”

With difficulty, Anam tried to hold back her crying, though the tears refused to stop.

In a trembling voice, she looked at the dignified woman, who resembled her slightly, and
said:

“Mamie, I have repented. Wallahi, I have stopped everything that offended you and Abie.”

Mamie replied:

“Whether you stop or continue, it will not help you now. Going to Nigeria is compulsory
because an important matter will take you there. You must go and do your service in your
country of birth, even if only because it may benefit you in the future. This place you
have taken as your fatherland and motherland is borrowed. Soon, we too will leave it
because we are tired of it.”

Anam burst into tears again, stamping her feet.

“Wallahi, I do not like Nigeria. It is hot, there are mosquitoes, and there is terrible
noise. I do not have to do the service because I will never live in Nigeria, so why should
I care whether the service benefits me? Please, Mamie…”

Mamie interrupted her with a hiss. Without answering further, she headed toward a door in
anger and said:

“Go. The driver should take you for body treatment because your Abie said you will leave
early, and you know he does not joke with time.”

Anam’s Fear Of Nigeria

Anam cried again as if someone had just told her that Abie or Mamie had died.

Truly, she did not want to go to Nigeria because the heat there troubled her greatly.
Then there were the Kano mosquitoes, as if they were doing business with them.

Above everything, she hated staying in her uncles’ house. She disliked Daddy’s wife, but
the woman herself did not disturb her too much unless someone entered her matter.

What Anam hated most was the woman’s eldest son, a harsh and wicked young man even worse
than his mother. She did not like seeing him. They did not share the same road, let alone
the same shade.

Most times, when she heard he was coming to Malaysia, she would run away to Aunty Mimi’s
house. If she heard he was going to Aunty Mimi’s place, since Aunty Mimi was also married
in Malaysia, Anam would run back to Sabah.

She would not allow them to meet until his visit ended. In her whole life, she had seen
him no more than three times.

From the first meeting, she hated him because he shouted at her after she broke a glass
cup by mistake in their house. She twisted her mouth at him, and he caught her lips and
squeezed them until they became swollen. She was not even more than ten years old at the
time, yet she never forgot it and never stopped hating him.

Even their second meeting involved his wickedness. If she remembered correctly, he beat
both her and Aysha, his younger sister, because they went to Aysha’s friend’s birthday
party without permission.

That beating entered her body so deeply that she even got fever, because no one had ever
beaten her since she became aware of herself except that wicked man.

Anam Gets Ready

She stayed there for a long time, thinking angrily, before going upstairs.

In less than fifteen minutes, she came out wearing trousers and a top, then covered
herself with a heavy jacket that reached her knees because it was the cold season.

Though she had wrapped a veil around her head like Arab women, that did not stop her from
pulling the soft hood of the jacket over her head. She carried a side bag around her neck
and kept pouting.

Mamie was sitting in the sitting room peeling fruit, but she did not even look at Anam.

“Mamie, I am ready. The money please.”

Without speaking, Mamie pushed her ATM card toward her.

“Thank you. May Allah increase blessed openings.”

Anam held Mamie’s hand, kissed it, then raised her head and kissed Mamie’s cheeks the way
Arabs do.

Mamie did not respond. Anam refused to leave, and her eyes filled with tears because she
knew Mamie was still angry since she had not returned the kiss.

A smile escaped Mamie’s face. She shook her head and held the hand of her only daughter,
whom she constantly worried about losing to marriage one day.

From outside, one might think Anam was very young because of the small body Allah gave
her. In truth, however, she was twenty-three years old.

Mamie kissed her too and gently touched her cheeks. This made Anam laugh happily and hug
her.

Mamie smiled and said:

“Alright, queen of mischief, go and come back early.”

“Okay, Mamie. Bye.”

Anam Returns From Body Treatment

She was not gone for more than three hours before she returned. She had become even more
beautiful and graceful, clearly showing that she had received full treatment.

Her face shone and glowed. A strong, calming fragrance followed her.

With a smiling face, she moved toward the handsome elderly man who looked very much like
her. He too was a black beauty, but because of his comfortable life, everything about him
showed dignity and noble appearance.

His black beard added more beauty to his face. He did not have a large body. Everything
about Anam resembled him, meaning she took after her father completely.

She went and hugged him from the side, laughing happily at seeing him. He also smiled and
held her hand in his.

“Hmm, my Mamana, what is this fragrance? You smell like a bride.”

She hid her face on his shoulder and laughed.

“Abie, I am not any bride.”

He only laughed and said nothing.

Mamie came out of the kitchen and met them. She smiled as she looked at her beloved
husband and their only daughter in the world.

Anam removed the veil from her head and showed her parents her beautifully treated hair.
It was shining, fragrant, and very long.

Her whole appearance was like Abie’s. Her hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes were the parts
she inherited from Mamie, along with the similarity of their voices.

They praised her beauty and the effect of the treatment.

Teasingly, Abie said:

“Mamana, you have truly become like a bride. Or should I just marry you off when we get
there?”

Her eyes widened badly. Then she twisted her face, and tears began filling her eyes. Her
lips shook, and she did not know what to say.

Mamie and Abie burst into laughter. This made her run upstairs.

Mamie smiled and said:

“You see? You have provoked her.”

Abie replied:

“Did I provoke her, or did you?”

Mamie laughed.

He continued:

“The matter truly worries me. Whenever I remember that one day she will marry and leave
us, my mind becomes disturbed. She is growing older. It would even be better that once
she finishes this service, we proceed to Humairah’s matter.”

Mamie released a heavy sigh.

“That is what is right. But she keeps chasing away every suitor here, not to mention in
Nigeria. She always sees herself as a little girl.”

Abie said:

“But she is a little girl. When did you give birth to her? If not that marriage is
necessary, I would have kept her and continued looking at her.”

Mamie laughed and said:

“So our own parents did not love us when they gave us out in marriage? It means the time
of her marriage will be a show, because separation between daughter and father will be
dramatic.”

Abie replied:

“It will surely be dramatic. That husband will receive many warnings. That is why I
prefer she marries a Nigerian man. This country has become enough for me.”

Mamie said:

“May Allah choose what is best and bring a good man.”

Abie answered with “Ameen,” though his heart was heavy with the thought of separating
from his only daughter.

Anam Travels To Nigeria

The next day, exactly as Mamie had said, Abie and Anam left for their country of birth,
Nigeria.

Anam cried bitterly when parting from Mamie, even though she knew Mamie would not wait a
full year before visiting. They had said Mamie would not come until Anam completed her
service, but Anam knew her mother well.

During the flight, she slept to make up for the sleep she had missed the night before
because of the sorrow of being separated from her parents, to whom she was extremely
close. They were like her friends. They were the people she consulted, the people she
cried to, the people she laughed with, and the companions of her life. She had no one
like them in the whole world.

The Family Of MD Shareff

Alhaji Mustapha Daher, popularly known as MD Shareff, was the head of the family. He was
a former soldier and among the early soldiers who served Nigeria in the beginning of the
era.

He had three wives. The first wife, Hannatu, never had a child until old age reached her.
However, she raised the son of his second wife as if she were the one who gave birth to
him. Because of the peace between them, one would never believe they were co-wives.

His second wife was Hajarah. She had four children with him. Muhammad was the eldest, and
after he grew a little, he was handed to Hannatu, whom they called Gwaggo. Then came
Halimatu, Abubakar, and the last-born, Umar.

The youngest wife, Juwairiyya, had two children: Usman and Maryam.

The life in MD Shareff’s house was uneven. The first wife and the middle wife were united,
and one would not see them as co-wives. But the youngest wife, Juwairiyya, was treated
differently. She did not enjoy living with them because of the hardship and oppression
she faced from them, especially because she was from a poor background.

Juwairiyya was extremely patient and quiet. Despite the suffering she endured from her
co-wives, she never showed it on her face or complained to anyone. Only observant eyes
could notice.

MD Shareff tried his best to stop his two wives from maltreating his youngest wife, but
he could not succeed. He eventually died, leaving Juwairiyya to continue struggling among
them.

Usman And Juwairiyya’s Children

Despite the hatred and discrimination Gwaggo showed toward Juwairiyya and her children,
the children of the house still grew up loving one another. But Halimatu was different
from the rest, because she had a very harsh character. She did not even allow Maryam, her
only younger sister, to come close to her.

Life continued like that. The children grew, but Juwairiyya never rested. Her husband was
gone, and her relatives did not bring her close enough for her to return to them and feel
comfort.

The only person who pitied her was her brother, who was in Malaysia studying through a
scholarship.

She continued enduring until Allah brought her brother back to Nigeria with his wife. He
had married a Nigerian woman he met in Malaysia while she was studying under him.

Everyone disliked his wife, but Juwairiyya loved her because she saw no fault in her as
long as she was Muslim.

Her kindness made her brother and his wife work hard to take Usman with them, as he was
close to finishing secondary school. Her brother also bought her a house so she could
leave the home of Gwaggo and the others.

This hurt them deeply. They openly showed their hatred and jealousy and tried to plant
hatred for Usman and Maryam in the hearts of the other children.

Juwairiyya left the house with tears of starting a new life, taking her daughter Maryam,
whom Usman called Mimi, to the new home.

Usman’s Success And Family Rivalry

Time passed. Everything changed, and the children all grew up.

Because Usman was taken away, Gwaggo and Mama became determined to make Muhammad and the
others study deeply so that Usman would not surpass their children.

However, Allah cannot be forced. He gives to whom He wills at the time He wills.

They achieved success in life, but their hearts were filled with the desire to ensure
their brother Usman did not rise above them. Their mothers constantly preached this
jealousy to them until hatred for Usman and the desire to show superiority took root in
their hearts.

They rebuilt the inherited family house because it was very large. They also bought the
neighboring property from people who wanted to move out. They divided a portion for Usman
and Maryam and built their own sections together, including Halima’s share, since she was
already married.

When Usman came to Nigeria and saw the small portion left for them, he said nothing.
Instead, he tried to get close to his siblings and rebuild their bond as before. But that
did not happen because they did nothing except show pride and remind him that they now
had money, and that going abroad did not make him better than them.

He only smiled because their behavior now made him laugh.

After spending almost three months in Nigeria, he took his mother and his younger sister
Mimi back to Malaysia. This again disturbed Gwaggo and the others, and they continued
provoking Muhammad and the rest.

Shareff Is Taken To Malaysia

Four years passed before Usman looked back again. His marriage to his uncle’s only
daughter, Aysha Humairah, was arranged. Usman and Humairah had been close because he had
practically raised her, and deep love had grown between them.

Their wedding was held in Nigeria, even though his siblings treated him badly. He ignored
them and continued praying for their guidance.

Life continued. Usman and Humairah did not have children early. Later, Allah took the
lives of their mothers, Juwairiyya and Asiya, in Saudi Arabia during Hajj after an
accident in the Haram.

They were deeply shaken, and the shock later affected Usman’s uncle, who also passed
away. Responsibility then returned to Usman, because the lives of his two younger ones,
Humairah and Mimi, were under him.

At that point, his siblings called him to condole with him, and he felt happy.

Later, he married Mimi to one of his friends in Malaysia, also a Nigerian. Not long after,
Hajarah, Muhammad’s mother, died as well. Usman came to Nigeria with his wife and Mimi,
who was pregnant at the time.

This softened the hearts of his siblings because they had not attended Mimi’s wedding
even though he gave them their rights. They also only condoled with him by phone when his
mother and his wife’s mother died.

He told them to forget everything.

During this visit, he was finally introduced to their wives and children.

Who Is Shareff?

Muhammad had two wives. His first wife, Wasila, the daughter of Gwaggo’s younger sister,
had four children at the time. The eldest was Al-Mustapha, named after MD Shareff, and
they called him Shareff. Then came Maheer, Binta, Ishaq, and the pregnancy
she was carrying.

Wasila, called Mommy by the children, did not truly know Usman, but she hated him deeply
because of Gwaggo’s preaching. She hated him as if she were the sibling, not her husband.

On one side, she envied him for living abroad. In her view, no matter what, he had more
fortune than them.

She became unhappy seeing Muhammad and the others beginning to soften toward their brother,
so she planned to create fresh hatred between them, as Gwaggo guided her.

Muhammad’s second wife was Ubaida, called Aunty Amarya. She was heavily pregnant and
close to delivery. She was a patient woman who loved people. Despite the hatred from her
in-laws and the trouble from her co-wife, she remained calm and tolerant in the house.

Abubakar’s wife was Mariya, called Mom. She too was dignified and respectful. She did not
enjoy much kindness from her in-laws because Gwaggo controlled Mama and did not want
anyone in the house to be happy except the daughter of her own relative.

When Usman came during this period, the family issue of Shareff’s behavior became clear.
Shareff had been spoiled under Gwaggo’s influence. He was rude, disrespectful, violent,
hated school, and beat neighborhood children.

Abubakar, called Abbah by the children, was the first to warn his elder brother Muhammad,
whom they called Daddy, about what was happening. He feared they might get another ruined
child after Umar in the family. Since Shareff was the eldest among the children, his
destruction could affect the younger ones.

When Usman came to Nigeria to start building on land he had bought, the family told him
everything about Shareff’s behavior. He felt sad and told them to leave the matter to him.
He would take Shareff and raise him, by Allah’s will.

They were very happy.

Shareff was eventually taken secretly from the house without Mommy and Gwaggo knowing,
because they would never have agreed.

Shareff Grows Under Usman And Humairah

Humairah and Mimi were happy to see Shareff, but the boy had no proper upbringing at all.

They suffered greatly from his bad behavior, even though he was only nine years old at
the time. Ruqayya, also called Humairah, patiently worked with Usman to change his
character.

Mommy kept calling and insulting them, saying they should return her son if they were
tired and go have their own child. Her words hurt them, but they endured because they were
doing it for Allah and for their family.

Slowly, everything began to improve. Shareff became calmer and developed love for
education. He received care, love, and guidance from the people raising him.

A strong bond grew between them. To Shareff, there was now no one like Abie and Mamie in
the world, except Aunty Mimi, whose house he often visited, especially because of her son,
Su’ad.

After Shareff had spent five years with them, Allah blessed Mamie with pregnancy.

Great happiness filled their hearts, while Mommy became unhappy because she had wished
they would spend their lives without a child.

Mamie carried the pregnancy until Allah safely delivered her of a baby girl. Mommy and
Gwaggo became slightly relieved because, in their view, a girl’s value was not equal to
that of a boy.

The baby girl was named Juwairiyya, after Abie’s mother, but they called
her Anam, meaning “Blessings of God.”

Anam And Shareff

Anam’s care almost became Shareff’s responsibility. From then on, his concern became
Anam. By the time she opened her eyes to the world, she knew Shareff only as her elder
brother.

All her care seemed to fall into his hands. Even bathing and other duties normally done
by a mother, he did for her. She was always attached to him like chewing gum.

Sometimes she would even reject Abie and insist on Shareff.

When Anam turned six, Shareff finished secondary school. Abie prepared for him to continue
university in Indonesia. Shareff was deeply disturbed by the separation from his little
sister. He cried seriously even though he was eighteen years old.

He suffered greatly from missing Anam while in Indonesia, but he eventually forced himself
to focus on his studies to make Mamie and Abie happy.

However, Gwaggo and Mommy continued working to pull Shareff’s heart back to Nigeria and
separate him from Mamie and Abie.

Slowly, Shareff’s mind and life began returning to Nigeria. Whenever he had holidays,
instead of going to nearby Malaysia, he preferred to come to Nigeria. Sometimes he stayed
for a long time without visiting Abie and Mamie.

Still, the love for Abie and Mamie remained in his heart.

But he no longer wanted to go where they were, without even knowing why. As for Anam, he
began to hate her for no clear reason. If he went to Malaysia, he did not care about her.
Sometimes before leaving, he would even beat her.

Anam also forgot him. Because he was never free with her, they never shared the same
shade. When they met by accident, if he glared at her, she returned it because of her
stubborn nature.

Years passed. Shareff completed his education and became a full architect:

Architect Al-Mustapha Muhammad Shareff.

Instead of going to Malaysia to show gratitude to Allah and to the people who sponsored
him, he returned straight to Nigeria. This angered his father deeply, while Gwaggo and
Mommy defended him.

Later, Abie came to Nigeria and calmed the conflict. Instead of becoming angry, he advised
Shareff to open a company. Since Shareff had no money to open one, Abie suggested that
they work together.

In truth, Shareff did not even have a quarter of the money needed to build the company.
But Abie provided all the required funds. They documented everything legally with lawyers,
while Daddy and Abbah stood as witnesses.

Mommy and Gwaggo, however, believed Shareff built everything with his own money, and they
became proud of it. They kept working harder to keep him away from Abie, fearing that one
day Abie might think of marrying Shareff to Anam.

Anam Returns To Nigeria For Service

Many things happened after that. Anam continued her studies and only visited Nigeria
occasionally because whenever they came, she cried about the heat.

Anam was a beautiful black beauty who strongly resembled her father, though she had some
of Mamie’s features in certain areas. She was stubborn, sharp-tongued, playful, and did
not allow anyone to cheat her.

In education, she was not initially serious because she loved play. It took Abie and
Mamie standing firmly over her before she began understanding her studies.

As she grew older, weakness in her eyes became more obvious. If something was far from
her, she could not see it properly. At night, if there was no strong light, she could not
see without searching by touch.

When Abie and Mamie realized this, they became worried. A doctor confirmed that her
eyesight was weak and placed her on medication and glasses to help her. That was why Anam
always wore eyeglasses.

Strangely, she and Yaya Shareff never got along. In fact, they hardly met. If he managed
to go to Malaysia, she made sure they did not meet. If she came to Nigeria, they would
meet only two or three times.

Whenever they met, he would do something wicked that increased her hatred for him, and he
also disliked her because he saw her as stubborn and disrespectful.

If she was around, he would tighten his face as if death had been sent to him. If she
greeted him, he would answer carelessly. Because of that, she stopped greeting him and
behaved as if she did not even know where the dust had gathered him from in the world.

Meanwhile, the company had begun working smoothly under the leadership of Architect
Al-Mustapha Muhammad Shareff, popularly known as MM Shareff.

He employed serious and skilled workers because he did not accept careless staff. He did
not joke with his work and did not allow his workers to joke either.

His dedication impressed Abie greatly. Behind the scenes, Abie continued supporting him
because he loved the boy deeply, just like his only daughter, Anam.

Now, Anam has returned to Nigeria for one year of service because Mamie and Abie insisted.
Meanwhile, the person she runs from has already become established in Nigeria because of
his company, in which her father secretly has strong shares.

Babu So Mi Yakawo Kishi Book One Novel Details

• Novel Title: Babu So Mi Yakawo Kishi Book One Complete Hausa Novel
• Category: Complete Hausa Novels
• Language: English Translation
• Main Characters: Anam / Juwairiyya, Shareff / MM Shareff, Abie, Mamie
• Other Characters: Gwaggo, Mommy, Daddy, Abbah, Mimi, Humairah, Usman, Muhammad, Juwairiyya, MD Shareff
• Main Themes: Love, jealousy, family rivalry, polygamous family conflict, migration, upbringing, hatred, destiny, and hidden sacrifice
• Setting: Malaysia, Nigeria, Kano, family house, and Shareff’s company

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children affected by family hatred, emotional migration stories, and enemies-to-lovers
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Anam and Shareff’s connection is interesting because their relationship begins with
closeness, later changes into unexplained hatred, and now faces a new test as Anam returns
to Nigeria. The story also touches real issues such as family manipulation, social media
influence, upbringing, and hidden parental sacrifice.

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What is Babu So Mi Yakawo Kishi Book One Complete Hausa Novel about?

Babu So Mi Yakawo Kishi Book One Complete Hausa Novel is about Anam, a
Malaysia-raised Nigerian girl who returns to Nigeria for service, and Shareff, a young
architect connected to her family through a long history of jealousy, love, hatred, and
sacrifice.

Who is Anam in the story?

Anam, also called Juwairiyya, is the only daughter of Abie and Mamie. She is beautiful,
stubborn, pampered, wears eyeglasses because of weak eyesight, and dislikes staying in
Nigeria.

Who is Shareff?

Shareff, also known as MM Shareff, is Architect Al-Mustapha Muhammad Shareff. He was
raised for some years by Anam’s parents and later became a successful architect and
company leader in Nigeria.

Why does Anam dislike Nigeria?

Anam dislikes Nigeria because of the heat, mosquitoes, noise, and the family trouble she
associates with staying in her uncles’ house.

Why do Anam and Shareff dislike each other?

Their relationship changed from childhood closeness into hatred because of distance,
family manipulation, Shareff’s harsh attitude toward her, and Anam’s stubborn reactions.

What are the main themes of Babu So Mi Yakawo Kishi?

The main themes include love, jealousy, family rivalry, polygamous home conflict,
upbringing, migration, hidden sacrifice, hatred, social influence, and destiny.

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