Aneeserh - Sunaye Uku Nanameera And Nainarh KD Book 1Latest Hausa Novel

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Aneeserh - Sunaye uku 
By Nanameera & Nainarh KD | Latest Hausa Novel

Aneeserh walks into her own home and finds it full of strangers, far more of them inside the compound than outside. A man of about sixty-five takes her hand and tries to prepare her, and she answers with a schoolgirl’s disbelief: “Your Excellency, ko baka bane ba president of Nijeriya ba.” She is sure her parents will be there, because they promised they would be back by the time she came home from school. Inside the parlour, three bodies lie in shrouds. Aneeserh: Just The Beginning by N $ N (Nanameera $ Nainarh KD) opens on this scene, and it does not soften it. She uncovers the faces one by one, begging her father to stop the joke, until she collapses in the president’s arms.

The excerpt then moves back four months. The girl who ends up on the parlour floor is a spoiled, noisy, affectionate girl, the baby of the house. Her Abba carries himself with calm authority and calls her “baby”. Her Ummi is quicker to scold and slower to give in. Her brother Yaya Farooq drives her to school, teases her and gives in to her anyway. Aneeserh sulks over the car’s yellow light and bargains for money, bursting into tears when she does not get her way. She demands chocolate, and the chocolate comes. These small scenes are not filler. They show what she has lost, and they let the reader hear the family’s private jokes before the family is gone.

The household has rules, and the excerpt shows them being tested. Abba bans television on school days after catching her lost in a film, and he shouts so hard that she runs to her room. Farooq, who cannot bear her crying, takes her out at night for chocolate and ice cream. At school, her seatmate Asma’u says she would like to marry Farooq. Aneeserh repeats this to him, and he flares up. She runs crying to Abba, and it is Farooq who gets the scolding, for a reason that is not quite fair. Ummi says as much, and Farooq answers that he knows her “lalura”, a condition the excerpt mentions but never names. For days afterwards she misses him, and he returns with a birthday cake she had forgotten about. She asks Abba to take her with them on a trip, and he says no. Shortly afterwards, the three leave while she sits her exams.

The last conversation with Abba is an ordinary phone call. He tells her they will be home by the time she comes back from school. The excerpt reports the accident after the fact, in a few plain lines. Back in the present, she has spent a week calling out only three names. The president, whom she calls Uncle, tells her gently that no one who dies comes back, and that she should pray for them after every prayer. The text makes it clear that he is in grief too, and that he does not know what to do with a girl who cannot take in what he is saying.

At Uncle’s side is his wife, Hajiya Aisha, and the story shifts into a quieter register. A private jet takes the three of them to Abuja, where staff in white and sky purple line up outside the Government House of the president of Nigeria. Aneeserh clings to Hajiya Aisha and asks to be taken to bed like a small child. Hajiya Aisha tucks her in and asks to be called Mommy. Aneeserh asks the one question she cares about: what can she do that will not make her forget her parents? Hajiya Aisha’s answer is prayer. When she hears the word, Aneeserh jumps up in a panic, afraid that Abba will scold her for missing it, and then stops, remembering that Abba is not there to scold her. It is the most painful beat in the excerpt, and the author leaves it unremarked.

The excerpt’s tone is tender and sad, with real humour in the family scenes. It reads as family drama and a coming-of-age story, closer to a story about grief and a new household than to a romance. It suits readers who like warm domestic detail, or who want to see how a lively child rebuilds her life in a house of power. Its opening scene involves the death of a whole family, so a content note may be sensible.

The excerpt leaves several questions open. What is the “lalura” that Farooq worries about when he argues with her? How did the accident happen, and does anyone besides the president know more than he has said? What will daily life be like for a spoilt fifteen-year-old in the president’s residence, and who will she meet there? Will Hajiya Aisha’s promise to raise her as her own daughter hold when Aneeserh begins to push at the edges of the new rules? And what does the title mean by “just the beginning”?

A girl who is used to being forgiven must learn to live where no one is left to forgive her.

Aneeserh’s story is available to read on Wikinovels.com. In a house with every comfort, who will tell her what she is still allowed to be? [https://wikinovels.com.ng/]