tries hard to use her Yoruba, even though she can hardly speak it. Her mum told me of a visit to the Mall recently, where they saw a woman who was as fat as a plastic water tank (you know the ‘Gee-pee’ ones?) in a pair of incredibly tight red trousers. My sister didn’t notice the woman but her daughter did, and to catch her mum’s attention without alerting the fat woman she whispered loudly ‘Mummy, wo!, Mummy, wo!’ which means ‘Mum, Look!. Her mum burst out laughing when she saw what her daughter was…
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