WE WILL TRAVEL AGAIN

The fufu at Amonokrom close to the washing bay is nothing like I have ever experienced. Soft and smoothly round. Its lays gorgeously in an “ayiwa” or “asanka”- some call it earthen ware. The anglisization of it does not effect any change in my murmuring stomach.

 I have to eat. This looks like something I can without much effort finish in minutes.  A grin running from one ear to the other inhabits my face. I’m not a glutton but the thought of food -good food gives me a sudden rush of warm blood in my face. If I were white, I would have looked pink because of food. So, food makes me jittery. I present my “asanka” for garnishing, from the hugh aluminium sauce pan came the best home away from made light soup inundated with assorted meat and fish. Meat? NO!. Fish? Plenty.

I scooped half a spoon full of freshly grounded mixture of onions, garlic and ginger onto the fufu.

Lunch is served. I carried my load with grace to the low placed kitchen table and stool under a tree whose fruits I don’t know because there was none. I cared less. i had not driven all the way to pick fruits.

With my fore finger running through the soup, a piece of piece slid into the soup painting a picture of an island far away from civilization where its inhabitants could run around not bothering who was watching. The taste in my mouth and temperature in my mouth was electrifying. Underneath this electrification was an everlastingly refreshing taste of ginger, onion and garlic all at once. An assurance of having my monies and time’s worth. Morsel after morsel, with my head slightly bowed and a back contorted into an arch, I swallowed, chewed, sucked and licked off every bit of fish and every stagnant pool of soup.

Sitting quietly under the tree sipping from a medium sized calabash of fresh palm wine, life couldn’t have been any better for me.

 Covid -19  has affected us great deal but what it cannot do is stop us from enjoying the little pleasures of our short lives. Covid-19 will continue to wreck havoc , devastating the very core of our existence but one thing is certain…

＃WEWILLTRAVELAGAIN