A Weird Hope is my novel, published by
Century Research and Publishing Limited, Kano-Nigeria, 2012.
STUDIOUS freshman
Abubakar has a romantic notion that love and studies can be taken along
simultaneously. In contrast, his urbane confidant, Salim, regards doing so as an aberration and a threat to their future and lives.
He defiantly flouts the admonishment. This eventually coincides with the time
his consanguineous relationship with his ravishing cousin, Maryam Bako, develops
into a full-pledged love relationship.
Bako, Maryam’s conservative, avaricious father, forbids her to attend any school beyond the college, which she could only finish because of Abubakar’s help. She’s finally lured and
vanquished into marriage with one rich, miscreant, Alhaji Usman alias Maisunan.
The union has been arranged—typical practice among some traditional
Hausa/Fulani communities—since she was a baby. Maryam’s father was indebted to what
Maisunan’s father did to him when he was helpless. Unluckily for him and luckily
for her, the loveless marriage is short-lived. A few months into it, the
tycoon got arrested for his shady, snooty businesses and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Abubakar has already gotten a new girlfriend, a better one, as he
believes she will be a path for him to the El-Dorado—to the US. Shahada Bukhari, a witty, go-getter daughter of the newly appointed
Nigerian Ambassador to the US, is brought to her grandparents in Kano to learn
her native language and to get married. Against all odds, she rebuffs her
parent’s proposed man because of Abubakar. However, they are to return soon, and the
father vows that his daughter must get a husband in Nigeria
The divorced Maryam appears volte face before Abubakar, and their love is
rekindled. Yet he feels unable to desert Shahada for her. Amidst this qualm, their
semester result comes out; he’s eventually withdrawn from the university. He
was lovesick—due to Maryam’s marriage—during the exam. Things exacerbate to the
extent he can’t withstand the pressure. He has a mental crisis. Hearing what
befalls her old lover, Maryam, who has months-old pregnancy, instantly falls severely sick.
Would Maryam and Abubakar recover? Would Shahada get married in Nigeria? To whom? What about Abubakar’s education? Readers will find answers to these questions and more in the text.
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