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She’s been there throughout my lifetime. Of course, she’s still there!
She comes across as a very simple and jovial woman who takes things in her stride.
Wewe- (m m).
She’s exuberance personified. She has this, ‘never say die’, attitude, even as a great grandma.
My paternal grandpa was called Baba Olusola. Wewe happens to be the one and only Olusola.
I, more or less, grew up in her hands. I used to know her as an energetic and vivacious woman in her middle age when I was a teenager.
She was always there. She usually had a practical solution to issues.
When I went to live with her sister, she then lived in Bariga. Whenever she came visiting, their closeness was such that they would be going to and fro the bus stop severally before she finally departed. That was after they would have spent a whale of a time gisting about this and that.
I’m yet to know anyone she ever had a beef with. She’s a typical example of, ‘Jeje l’omo Eko nlo’. Added to that is the fact that she’s so street smart.
When I got into the hostel in the Bariga days, her house was a welcome change from the regimented hostel life. There I would eat, drink and enjoy the company of family.
Of course, when I was going back to school, I would be given some money and provisions.
When I entered a tertiary institution, she was the one that showed me how to send money through the normal mail. She would send the money, cleverly inserted in carbon paper, and there was no time it didn’t get to me.
Before I was born, I learned that she died for three days and was woken up by God through the late Reverend/Pastor/Founder SBJ Oschoffa of Celestial Church of Christ.
To God be the glory, she’s still alive and kicking!
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