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The Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB disclosed to all candidates who will be sitting for the 2021 UTME examination that they will be tested on a Use of English Novel titled "The Life Changer by Khadija Abubakar Jalli''.
The book "The Life Changer" by Khadija Abubakar Jali is a novel that changes the narrative of life in campus.
Laced with underlying optimism, the book upholds the tenets of hope and redemption in the lives of our youth.
The story follows the escapades of Salma and her roommates in the university as a swim in the turbulent and seamy tides of the academia.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Khadija AbubakarJalli holds a Bachelor of Science(Mathematics) Education degree. she is an entrepreneur and the CEO of the She's Boutique Afrique. She is happily married with children.
SUMMARY OVERVIEW
Khadija Abubakar Jalli's " The Life Changer" is a debut novel that explores the narrative of life realities at the Nigeria University campus; the freedom of dressing, way of life, and attitudes towards life. It also explores the good, the bad, and the unthinkable aspects of human characters especially in response to freedom.
Furthermore, the novel is laced with the underlying optimism towards hope and redemption of life in the present youth through its embedded narrative that details Salma and her roommate's escapades in the university as they glide in the turbulent and seamy sides of academia.
The story begins with Bint, a five-year-old girl and the darling of the Ahmed family narrating her classroom encounter with their meddlesome social studies teacher; Mallam Salihu. Mallam Salihu who seems to believe he understood every little bit about every subject was somewhat ridiculed when Bint who had answered his question on how to say " Good Morning" in French asked him to say "That is very good" in French. Mallam Salihu was unable to answer the question but with the help of the French mistress, this made him leave Bint's class and never returned till after the break Of course, Bint's courage to ask a teacher a question he couldn't answer was appreciated by her classmates. While she recounts her tales to her older siblings, their mother whim they are used to her impromptu barging into their room as tactics she uses to keep them on their toes on issues of personal hygiene came in and joined their what sounds like an interesting story. She however put them in the right perspective not to mock Mallam Salihu but rather celebrates his humility to accept that he doesn't have an answer to her question and calls the French Mistress to their aid.
Omar's arrival changed the conversation. Omar has just been admitted into Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to study Law. This good news calls for celebration. Omar had been a precocious child and his outstanding success in both his SSCE; which he described his achievement as "no means a small feat", and JAMB gave his mother the need to explain and shares her experiences at the university and how she responded to them. Some of these life experiences were hers while many are through Salma's and her roommate's embedded story.
Ummi tells her son that admission into the university is a life changer. She recounts how she left Lafayette to the university after agreeing to her father's condition that she must be married before she graduated but luckily for her, her husband agreed to marry her before she went for registration at the university and this calls for a double celebration for her and the entire community.
At the University, Ummi and many other students were in a queue at the Faculty registration office. The lecturer in charge had taken ages to commence the exercise.
Then Salma, a fair-complexioned girl, tall and slim in tight—fitting clothes had only arrived at the venue barely fifteen began to grumble about the ineptitude of the registration officer, the University lecturers having previously had an awful occurrence from her previous university where she was expelled from the school for the offense of examination malpractice. While she was grumbling, a young man politely addressed her to be calm that others have come earlier than her yet they remained calm in the queue but Salma wouldn't refrain from saying spiteful things about university officials.
However, the twist of all happened when a Janitor emerged from the office and handed the keys to the office to the young man who had engaged Salma and the turnout became a discomfiting moment for her. The faculty registration commenced and in a short time, Ummi was through and she proceeded to the department for her matriculation number. At the department, Ummi was shocked to see that the departmental head, Dr. Samuel Johnson was a young man, he had a tribal mark that gave him away to either be an lgala or a Yoruba man, the crucifix That dangles across his chest from his necklace is an indication that his religious ideology is Christianity. His hospitable gestures towards Ummi who is still filled with all derogatory allegations Salma talked about university lecturers made her uncomfortable. She later learned from her husband that Mr. Samuel Johnson was the one who assisted him with her admission into the university.
Furthermore, Ummi recounts the story of "the quiet one" alongside more unfolding tales about Salma and her roommates to admonished her children especially Omar who is now a university undergraduate.
The moral from the story of the quiet one is for her son not to trust anyone because it is impossible to be certain of people especially to the fact that looks could be deceptive. For Salma's story, the children learned to be careful of whom they make as friends. She admonished them to avoid friends that can lure them into cultism or those who could engage them in Emal (examination Malpractice).
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