Witnesses To Tears: A Novel by Abubakar Gimba
When Mr. Anas (a widower whose ideals of honesty and discipline is never compromised) meets Lahab (a younger teacher who assists his daughter to get home by giving her a lift), he seems to have seen a younger version of himself in Lahab. The similarities in their lives would become even more poignant when Lahab, like Anas, loses his wife during child labour with the only difference between them being that in Anas’ case, the child survives and grows up to become his only child and beloved daughter, Hussaina, while Lahab loses both mother and child.