Dial - Season 2 - Episode 59

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 59

The young men who had carried me inside were speaking excitedly to a slim, elderly man with a bald head and a huge moustache. The man was wearing a white smock over his white cloth, and he had a white horsetail whisk which he tossed lazily against his shoulder once in a while.

They gave him the letter Brian had written and he read it slowly. He looked very familiar to me, but I couldn’t place him. I wondered briefly if he were Nana b0s0mba’s brother.

He carefully folded the letter, raised his voice, and spoke in his native language. Suddenly, the people gathered began to make great lowing sounds of distress and mourning, which I found quite confusing. The man with the great moustache then approached me, bowed low and looked into my face.
“Yew speeking the Eeenglish?” he asked coldly.

I nodded, but responded in the Fanti language.
“I can speak Fanti too, if you can,” I said.
“Yes, I can,” he replied in the Ashanti Twi language, his accent passably good. “So, you’re Biko Yao, the man my daughter was seeing? The man who caused her to die?”
I stared at him with incomprehension, my brow puckered.

Could he be referring to himself as Akos’ father because of the custom of referring to all girls in one’s family as daughters?
“Well, I came here to speak to Nana b0s0mba,” croaked softly. “If he’s around, I would like to see him, please.”
His eyes narrowed sharply.
“I am Nana b0s0mba of the Wowo Ritual Astral Clan!” he said sharply. “I am the father of Akos, the one who died! Your people stole the chain I gave her, and I killed them all! I killed the driver who knocked her down! I’ve tried to kill you several times but to no avail! But now, you have come here, to the lair of the lion!”

“What are you talking about?” I asked with sudden terror. “I want Nana b0s0mba! He’s Akos’ father! I spoke to him, I’ve been seeing him! The bearded man, the one who flies on cloths…Nana b0s0mba of Wowo! The one whose sister is Dede!”

“I’m Nana b0s0mba!” the man shouted angrily.

He pointed to a picture on the wall, and I looked.