The Love Of A Mother, 1
Dele was in primary two when he became fully conscious of his mother's burnt face and arm. The right side of the woman's face to her neck and arm was burnt and the scar remained on her.
She always wore a shawl around her head to conceal the scars.
He had asked her what happened to her and she told him she had been burnt. She never told him more than that.
Then when his friends began to visit him, they saw his mother and many of them were petrified by her sight.
A boy had even cried upon seeing the scars on her. What happened to your mother's face and neck, they usually asked.
Fire burnt her, he would simply say.
Many of them expressed their pity for her. Then when he was in primary six, his mother had attended his school inter-house sports competition