In Bida, Niger State, in the GRA everyone knew Malam Haruna the quiet, humble but sometimes fierce man who has been selling suya (roasted beef) beside the bus park for the past 30 years. He was old, thin, and every morning he smelled faintly of Lux soap, always lux. Some people said it was because the soap was cheap while other people said it was a habit. But only I knew the truth, the truth being that Lux was the last thing his late wife ever bought for him, theyd always changed soaps in the home but Lux was the last soap she bought him and he used. They’d been newlyweds in the 1970s, living in a single room with a leaking roof and an unsafe environment, surrounded by thugs and miscreants, but no one ever dared to harm Malam Haruna, he was an always an exception, such was the level of respect they had for him in the area. “I want you to smell good,” she had always said, before the smell of Naama (Beef in Hausa) overwhelmed his smell. Every month, he’d save a little and walk to the market to buy it. Over the years, the packaging changed from paper to plastic, from gold to pink, different varieties were introduced but he stayed true to the type his wife had bought him. Now, at eighty, his hands tremble when he unwraps the bar each morning. Sometimes the market runs out, and the seller tells him to try another brand, but Never. The old man’s soap, and the love it carries remains true and forever.
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