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

Chai, i can't just remember i read it as well.

Long long time ago

Raliya 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.

Ralia- the Sugar girl.

Ralia

My elder sister had this book wayback




Ralia go don be grand mama by now





The Wicked old woman bweast be like most of our young girls bweast


E don fall like Naira , con scatter join

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"

OMG ,nostalgic memories

Ralia, the sugar girl.

The writing was so superb, I can still literally smell the foul stench of the Old woman's cooking and I can picture her long dirty nails in my head too.

Is it not Ralia something?

This book that gave us nightmares as kids.

Ok who remembers the name of the old woman?

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

I think she's an old witch as called in the novel that maltreats lalia.

Her name is Ayawa!

chukwuma0000:


I think she's an old witch as called in the novel that maltreats lalia.

Yes but she has a name

Bbn Angel bress na quarter to resemble this old woman own

Ralia the Sugar Girl, I read when i was in Primary back then

Old school

Sewasaunt:
Ralia, the sugar girl.

The writing was so superb, I can still literally smell the foul stench of the Old woman's cooking and I can picture her long dirty nails in my head too.

What was the book about?

Ralia ,"sugar girl " is the title.

Missed these books :sugar girl,one weekone trouble/double trouble, koku baboni, a book by Mabel imokhuede about a girl, lucky chance

"Ralia, Ralia, Ralia her mother called
come home , I need u
but Ralia was playing in d village centre
She did not hear her mother"

I remember those first opening verses well well

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

sugar girl

Rahlia, 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.

There's a new edition of Sugar Girl in bookstalls. Still the same story, same author and same publisher, but unfortunately all illustrations have been changed, including the one op posted here.

That year in pry school �

omo I no follow all those people wey comment above go school oooo. Dem fit call me junior pikin

1Sharon:


What was the book about?

A young girl; Ralia who got missing while running an errand for her mum.

She had several adventures, met a witch, escaped from her, met a hunter, then a prince, until she was eventually reunited with her mum.

It was so much fun to read back then, I should probably look for the book again.

Sewasaunt:



A young girl; Ralia who got missing while running an errand for her mum.

She had several adventures, met a witch, escaped from her, met a hunter, then a prince, until she was eventually reunited with her mum.

It was so much fun to read back then, I should probably look for the book again.

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

pyyxxaro:
Ralia

My elder sister had this book wayback


Ralia go don be grand mama by now


The Wicked old woman bweast be like most of our young girls bweast

E don fall like Naira , con scatter join

She was not wicked even though at that was the initial impression the story gave 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.

Sewasaunt:



A young girl; Ralia who got missing while running an errand for her mum.

She had several adventures, met a witch, escaped from her, met a hunter, then a prince, until she was eventually reunited with her mum.

It was so much fun to read back then, I should probably look for the book again.

Actually, the old woman wasn't a witch nor bad. The villagers conspired against her and exiled her, hence, reason she lived in the forest.

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.

Ralia the sugar girl, omoh I used to get this goosebumps when reading the book when I was still a kid, I thought the stories was real same with Kouku Baboni,
good old days.