A gourd replete with ten thousand wonders
Call me igba, ugba, wamdé of the Yoruba, Igbo, and Mooré. Call me flè and call me k’warya of the Bambara and the Hausa. Call me fayafa, multiplier of the Batammaliba. Call me first through twenty-third of my Fulani epithets. Call me Lagenaria siceraria, long melon, and gourd – bottle, birdhouse, and white-flowered. To youth, […]
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