Mola Mbua Ndoko: Wisdom and Ways of the Bakweri People

218. Three of the several attempts by Njoh à Nyame to assassinate Isele à Nyame

Maito, maito, kaii = It’s time to narrate tales.

Yasi nanu:  Njoh  a  Nyame  and  Isele  a Nyame were very good friends.  In one of their long conversations Isele proposed and Njoh accepted that since their respective mothers had lived for too long, it was reasonable to terminate the lives of their mothers so that the old mothers would rest in peace in their graves.  Njoh and Isele too would then be spared the arduous task of caring for aged women who had already outlived their usefulness and had also gone senile.

On the night before the planned assassinations, Isele hid his own mother on top of a tall tree known as Wuma, and then tricked Njoh to kill his mother.  Later when Njoh realized that Isele had intrigued him, Njoh vowed to devour Isele and Isele’s old mother.  Isele then avoided contacts with Njoh.

Traditional Muea Market ~ Eluwa Muea

Traditional  Muea  Market  (Eluwa  Muea) existed as a major trading centre long before the advent of the White man in the lands of the Bakweri.  Markets existed also in Misselele, Tiko, Gbwenga, Liyengu Mboke (ie. Victoria/Limbe), Vatoke

The Wonjoku family in Muea was renowned for the manufacture of hoes, cutlasses, knives, chisels, spears, axes, brass bangles, brass spindles and tools for uprooting stumps of elephant grass.  At that time several persons from villages all over Bakweri lands visited homes of Wonjuku families frequently to buy hoes.