dominique:


She was not wicked even though at that was the initial impression the story have at first. she lost her husband and children and the village labelled her a witch. She had to flee from the village to start living in the bush where she found a lost Ralia and took her to her hut in the bush. Along the line, the prince's horse knocked down Ralia and he took her to the palace for treatment. The old woman wasn't aware of this and started looking for her. Word had gotten out that Ralia was living with the old woman in the bush and the youths rushed to her hut to fetch her from there, unfortunately the old woman could not produce Raliya and they automatically assumed that she had killed her like she killed her husband and children, they arrested her immediately and dragged her back to the village. Ralia got better, found out that her friend has is being detained because of her and she came forward to defend her and convince the villagers that she's not a witch.

Your memory is superb.

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You will mess with your sweet memories if you read it again.


Honestly

Ralia the Sugar Girl.
This picx was an illustration of when Ralia was abducted by the old witch.

chukwuma0000:
I stumbled on this picture somewhere and have forgotten the name of the book we read back in my primary school.

Ralia the sugar girl in the village of apampam I will only forget after I’m dead I read it over and over again with the dancing yam, no supper for eze, eze goes to school , Ali and simbi..Funny how time flies and it was like some 33 years ago ..

9jaBloke:
Sugar Girl by Kola Onadipe.
Some of his other books I read then include:
Adventures of Souza
The Boy Slave
Return of Shettima

Those were the days.

You are a legend.
I read all these too.

Who remember 'Stories From An African Village'? (I can't remember the author's name.

chukwuma0000:
I stumbled on this picture somewhere and have forgotten the name of the book we read back in my primary school.

Sugar girl,
Ralia the sugar girl. Bia, OP u just opened up my primary school memories.

RALIA THE SUGAR GIRL, HER MOTHER WAS DEAD, HER STEP MOTHER DID NOT GIVE HER FOOD.

Good old days.

What about;

Fruit of honesty, africa night of entertainment,

You are correct. In fact, you made me remember. thanks

chukwuma0000:
I stumbled on this picture somewhere and have forgotten the name of the book we read back in my primary school.

Ralia: Sugar girl

How i wish i can turn back the hands of time,



Adulthood is........... I don't really get it, in the days of agbo, Ralia, eze goes to school.

funmise007:
as I saw the pix too thats the first name that pop up my mind,then I also remember the drummer boy...mehn good old days

the drummer boy… this is lagos nobody can molest me… who said diz and to whom?the gods aren’t to blame by ola Rotimi..

Kharol1234:
Raliya the sugar girl

e go better for you bro

How time flies, I read this book in primary 3, and I was given story from an African village by the author SMO AkA when he visited my dad few years later I heard he passed away

There is one other story in that book titled Rebbor the Robber.

When they was no social media people use to read books like Hardley Chase series, magazines, complete sports, Lolly ( Dauda the sexy guy). Newswatch etc but now phone phone every time children don't read any longer.

CharlotteFlair:
Ok who remembers the name of the old woman?

Ayawa.....don't know if am correct.

chukwuma0000:
I stumbled on this picture somewhere and have forgotten the name of the book we read back in my primary school.

the name is Raliatu the slave girl

Jayhansdboss:
Her name is Ayawa!

Ayiwa, not Ayawa

Nogymmarts:
RALIA THE SUGAR GIRL, HER MOTHER WAS DEAD, HER STEP MOTHER DID NOT GIVE HER FOOD.

I nor sure say na Sugar girl you dey quote so o........Ralia nor get stepmother for the novel.

Na blind mother she get.

The sugar girl

chukwuma0000:
I stumbled on this picture somewhere and have forgotten the name of the book we read back in my primary school.

Sugar Girl. The lead character was called Ralia.

Ralia the Sucre girl

dominique:


She was not wicked even though at that was the initial impression the story have at first. she lost her husband and children and the village labelled her a witch. She had to flee from the village to start living in the bush where she found a lost Ralia and took her to her hut in the bush. Along the line, the prince's horse knocked down Ralia and he took her to the palace for treatment. The old woman wasn't aware of this and started looking for her. Word had gotten out that Ralia was living with the old woman in the bush and the youths rushed to her hut to fetch her from there, unfortunately the old woman could not produce Raliya and they automatically assumed that she had killed her like she killed her husband and children, they arrested her immediately and dragged her back to the village. Ralia got better, found out that her friend has is being detained because of her and she came forward to defend her and convince the villagers that she's not a witch.

As kids that we were then, it messed up with our school of thought and when an older me read it again, I realized just what you narrated here that the woman was a victim of societal labeling due to the different calamities that befall her family. And if my memory serves me well, Ralia was frightened because of the dark room, the stench of the food offered, and the nightmare she had that that the woman wanted to kill her in her dreams, so she had to run away before she was found by the hunter.
As a kid my only source of entertainment was reading books like this, and I am still looking for two books like that which I read in Primary four and five, titled "THE YOUNG BREED" and *HERO NUMBER ONE".

casppyjay:
the drummer boy… this is lagos nobody can molest me… who said diz and to whom?the gods aren’t to blame by ola Rotimi..

Chai yu are a legend and yu deserve a chilled stout all those time i get SOP too naa there I know all this Christmas songs.

Kakamorufu:
Ralia the Sucre girl

Which one is Sucre? Oga are you typing from Togo?

No safe for work cover.

The sugar girl

ComputerOperato:

You are a legend.
I read all these too.

OG

casppyjay:
Ralia the sugar girl in the village of apampam I will only forget after I’m dead I read it over and over again with the dancing yam, no supper for eze, eze goes to school , Ali and simbi..Funny how time flies and it was like some 33 years ago ..

I thought I've read all the eze books, so there's also no supper for eze

9jaBloke:
Sugar Girl by Kola Onadipe.
Some of his other books I read then include:
Adventures of Souza
The Boy Slave
Return of Shettima

Those were the days.

This sequel to The Boy Slave, I looked for this book like my life depended on it back then. Memories...