Grief Child - Chapter Three Summary.
Setting: Nimo’s home and farm
Sharpening of the machetes.
The day breaks and we are in Nimo’s compound. Adu, Nimo’s son, wakes up and joins his father Nimo outside – the latter is sharpening his machete (panga) getting ready to go to the farm. Nimo gives the little boy, Adu, instructions.
Mahama, Nimo’s farm laborer, wakes. Adu asks to go with his father and Makama to the farm and not to go there later with his mother and sister. His father agrees. Nimo gets his rifle, machete, Adu gets his small hoe and machete, Mahama gets his tools also and the three head off to the farm – too early for birds!
We learn that Nimo is an Ashanti by tribe, that he works on a farm belonging to Yeboah – a wealthy landlord who comes once in a while to inspect his farm - we learn that it is a cocoa farm. In the swamp, the farm caretakers like Nimo grow food crops like yams and rice. We learn that Nimo is a hunter too, a good one! He hunts antelopes and other animals. He often takes his son Adu to these hunting expeditions and the young boy talks and boasts about them to his schoolmates.
In seasons when the rice is ready for harvesting, Mahama and Adu always watch the farm from dusk to dawn and sometimes do this with Yaa. They do this to prevent the birds from devouring all the rice and devouring all their farm’s sweat. The young boy enjoys his father’s company. Now that harvesting season is due, Mahama and Adu have to warm up to the activity of watching the farm from dawn to dusk.
They reach the farm and find lots of birds there, a sign that the rice is ready for harvesting. Mahama aims his rifle and wads off the swarm of canary birds which have invaded the farm.
The three, Nimo, Adu and Mahama, reach the farm and find lots of birds there.
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