CHAPTER 10With Alhaja’s permission, Wura left work two hours earlier than usual to beat traffic and get to Uncle James’ house. But she did not go there straight from work. She branched at a house where Kola was teaching two little girls. He was their lesson teacher. Per their agreement, he left his students, who were only too pleased to go and watch cartoons, and went with Wura to Uncle James’ house.
On getting there, the front door was locked, and despite repeatedly knocking on the door and pressing the bell, no one answered the door. Just when Wura was about to start panicking that maybe she had come at the wrong time, Uncle James and Aunty Mary arrived with two large woven bags packed full of foodstuff.
They had just returned from the market, and Wura could see two large tubers of yam
