Connections

Every time I go to my village, people always want stop by and say hello. Greetings are very very important and cannot be ignored. In fact, as one of my Physics teacher Mr. Seka Godfrey will always remind us when teaching us,"greetings are prayers" so do not ignore them. These two men with my mother are from my village. These are men I grew up and they have always been around. They have also been very healthy but age is coming real fast. The one on the left doesn't see very well but he is a very good organist. He hails from a neighboring village and I always enjoy him playing the organ in Church back in those days. It is amazing how long he treks even with poor sight.
The Pa on the right is my parents closest neighbor and family friend for as long as we moved into this area. He has been a petit merchant over the years. He sells just a few things moving around with them asking someone to open the market (tóʼ la wáy?). Actually he is said to have been the one who started our market in Sop which has grown to become a very big market but he still says just his few goods. You never see him at home with any such items to sell but what happens is that when he gets to the market, he takes them from other stationed traders and then moves around selling them. At the end he goes back with his own little gain.
He reminded me in appreciation something that happened sometimes ago that I had actually forgotten. He once asked me for money in the market when I just arrived from Bamenda and I politely told him that I didn't think he needed the drink. He was very surprised but I added that I am sure that he was in need of oil or soap or keresene and he gladly accepted. I provided him with cooking oil and that taught him a lesson. I was very happy when he told me that I taught him a lesson that he will never forget. God can work in ways that we cannot imagine. All we need to ask God each day is to use us. May we be His hands, feet and mouthpiece so that the world me may know even in smaller things.
They all belong to meeting together and they have their meetings on Sundays after Church service.