Auren Bauta Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel
Auren Bauta Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel is an emotional Hausa story about hardship, cruelty, family pressure, and the painful life of a young girl named Asma’u. This English translation presents the story in a clean and readable WordPress HTML format for Hausa novel lovers.
Auren Bauta Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel English Translation
“So it is only now you are coming back, you useless girl? Since when were you sent to fetch water, and it is only now you found the chance to return? You heard me when I told you I wanted to use that water to cook beans and rice, yet you went there and sat down because you are unhappy about the money I will make, right? Wicked girl with a face like a spirit.”
Inna Harira kept pouring all these insults on the young girl, even though the girl was still carrying water on her head. She did not help her bring it down, despite seeing clearly that the girl was extremely tired.
She continued scolding her until she finally finished. Only then did she allow the girl to put the water down.
Then she said, “Now go to Malam’s farm and bring me firewood. If you like, stay long as if you have gone to the hereafter to greet your parents.”
Asma’u’s Hard Life
The girl picked up the small scarf she usually tied around herself and went out with it. She headed straight to the farm, which was not far from the house. She gathered the firewood and began walking back home, panting heavily. Anyone who looked at her would know that hunger and tiredness were written all over her body.
She entered the house with a greeting and dropped the firewood. Then she took water from the clay pot and drank a little, not knowing that she was only filling her stomach with water instead of food.
Inna Harira said, “Enter the kitchen and take the leftover food that was warmed for you. The way you are opening those eyes of yours from inside that black face is like something from a terrible nightmare.”
Asma’u brought out the food and was just about to start eating when Inna Harira gave her another task: she had to blow the fire for the beans and rice Inna Harira sold.
She sat beside the fireplace, blowing the firewood while eating a hard piece of leftover tuwon dawa. It was so hard that if it were thrown at someone, it would hurt because of how dry and strong it had become.
She continued working until she finished cooking the beans and rice properly. Then she packed it into the small container used for hawking and told Inna Harira that she was done.
Lantana and Asma’u Go Hawking
“Lantana! Lantana!” Inna Harira called her daughter, who usually hawked the food for her.
As for Asma’u, Inna Harira never considered her sensible enough. She often said that just as Asma’u’s face was dark, her brain was also dark, with no brightness in it at all.
Asma’u carried the container while Lantana walked in front, and they went out to sell the food.
That was what they did every day. Lantana was the one regarded as the proper hawker, not Asma’u.
They did not return until after Asr prayer. When they came back, they found Inna Harira sitting in the compound on a mat with a visitor.
The Visitor from Abuja
Inna Harira called Asma’u loudly. Asma’u came closer to where she was sitting. Then Inna Harira pointed at Asma’u and showed her to the woman.
“Hajiya, do you think she will be suitable? As for this girl, she is of no use to me here. Every day, she only eats and goes to the toilet. She does not even have the sense for hawking. Now, if she grows up and gets married, who will provide furniture for her? And look at how dark she is, like tar.”
The woman called Hajiya looked at Asma’u and said,
“It is not that she cannot be suitable, as I told you. I take girls to Abuja for domestic work, but this one still looks like a child.”
Inna Harira quickly replied, “That is only how she looks. If this girl starts working, she works like a donkey. She can take care of children, sweep, wash clothes, and wash plates. She knows all of it.”
Hajiya looked again at Asma’u, whose head was lowered. Asma’u did not understand where their discussion was heading.
Then Hajiya said, “As for me, I prefer that one.”
She pointed at Lantana, Inna Harira’s daughter.
Inna Harira only laughed with the kind of laughter people use when they are trying to avoid an uncomfortable matter.
About Auren Bauta Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel
Auren Bauta Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel introduces Asma’u, a young girl living under hardship, insults, hunger, and endless work. Her life is filled with pain, neglect, and unfair treatment from those who should have protected her.
This part of Auren Bauta Book 1 Complete Hausa Novel opens the story with emotional family conflict, poverty, cruelty, forced labor, and the beginning of a difficult journey that may change Asma’u’s life forever.