Portrait of a Patron
- Ahmadu Bello University Press Ltd 2006
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The Patron, in the august person of Haji Yunus Idris, adherent to the new social orientation of Kano, tolerates his neighbour's profligacy until Sadisu Gangan's reprobate of a son succumbs to the HIV/AIDS virus. Heeding their neighbourly relations and the charity upon which those relations are founded, the Patron negotiates the transfer of Sadisu and his family to a safe location away from the jeers of the mocking Kano City public...