My Husband left me for His Facebook Lover
She is a fair-skinned beauty with large rounded eyes, radiating a shiny black colour. She is average in height with a cold but fierce personality.
Newjeshwang/Ebo Town is a bustling and lively town that makes up the Kanifing Municipality. All the boys and girls grow up knowing each other, in one way or the other. It is either you are part of the same neighborhood or you all went to the Famous Newjeshwang Lower Basic School nicknamed ''Kandibaa'' not to talk of the Masquerade festivals.
A musical show nicknamed 'Fural' in our local dialect also connects us. The "Fural" show is organized at odd hours of the night, with huge speakers and other instruments accompanied by a DJ who plays the happening and trending songs of the year. Boys and girls gather together in a circle form while the beautiful, bold, handsome, and sexy Girls and boys pay for their favorite song, which they can dance to in the middle of the circle.
This was before the advent of Illegal or irregular migration "backway" to Europe.
Binta met her Husband in this bustling and lively Town in 2010. Malick Jammeh was a tailor who migrated from Baddibu Illiasa in the North Bank Region of the Gambia to Newjeshwang in search of a better opportunity in the Township.
He was staying with her sister while renting a tiny shop that could accommodate two sewing machines. Malick is tall, slim, dark in complexion, and a handsome Tailor with a bubbly personality and a great sense of humor. In no time, he had mixed and blended into the Newjeshwang way of life and even started picking up a few Wollof words to interact with his customers.
Binta was one of the Customers whom Malick liked. In no time, Malick has fallen head over heels in love with Binta. At first, the Love was one-sided but then as time went on, Binta started to reciprocate the same. Binta and Malick became love birds and everyone started gossiping about them and the girls envied what they had.
Malick decided to venture into irregular migration and journeyed to Europe through Libya. He spent a few months on the road and finally crossed in a boat to Europe, Italy.
When Malick finally settled down, he made his intentions known to his people that he wanted to Marry Binta as his Wife. His people, after the usual investigations, said he could not marry Binta because she was from a Slave caste "Jongo" whilst they were from the higher caste "foro" freeborn. Malick insisted that it was either her or no one else. After a long negotiation, his people yielded and allowed the marriage to take place.
Things were smooth between the two love birds and everything seemed normal. Whenever Malick complains about life in Europe, Binta will run around looking for spiritual help to smoothen things for him. She will constantly cook food and take it to the mosque or give it to the kids to seek prayers for her husband so that he can have papers and everything works out well for him.
Her husband started exhibiting animosity against her and getting angry at her for petty things including little misunderstandings between her and his Family in the village.
Unknowing to Binta, Malick was being distracted by a woman he met on Facebook. He had been chatting with her nonstop and before he knew what was happening, he had already fallen for this woman. The woman knows that Malick is married but she doesn't want to be a second wife, so for Malick to marry her, Binta has to be out of the picture. This was the reason why Malick was indifferent towards Binta and looking for ways to get rid of her.
Binta visited the Village in Illiasa, as she always does. One day, it was her turn to cook but when she woke up, her brother-in-law who was supposed to give her the fish money, left the house without leaving behind the money. She asked the other women if her brother-in-law left the money with them, and they said no. Binta was frustrated and did not know what to do, she decided to cook the rice first and waited for her Brother-in-law's return.
When he finally did, his wife confronted him as to why he did not leave the fish money behind but the man snapped and started cursing and accusing Binta of lying against him.
When it was time for lunch, Binta also dished out the white rice she cooked earlier with no soup or stew on it. Her brother-in-law got angry and called Malick to let him know that his wife served the family just rice with no soup or stew to go with it.
Binta returned to Newjeshwang the following day and Malick called her demanding an explanation for what happened. Malick decided to side with his brother against Binta which made her angry and they. exchange some words which do not go down well with Malick.
He stopped calling her, and when she called him, he didn't answer and this went on for a few months. Malick called Binta one day and pronounced the Talag putting an end to their 7 years of Marriage.
Two months later, Malick introduced the other woman to the Family, and even though his people were not happy about his sudden decision to take another wife barely two months after ending his marriage with Binta, who waited for him for more than 7 years, there was nothing they could do about it.
Binta fell into depression for months because Malick kept flaunting his new Bride on all his Social Media platforms including WhatsApp groups he and Binta shared. She gradually loses weight and has become a shadow of herself. She is back at her maiden family home where she has to deal with all kinds of rumors and gossip about her failed Marriage and how her Husband who fought so hard to marry her despite the claim of her belonging to the slave caste, dumped her for another.
She waited patiently and sacrificed it all for this man to succeed so that they could be reunited and consummate their marriage but instead, another woman effortlessly snatched her husband and drove her away. She wouldn't even mind sharing her husband with her but she was not even given that choice.
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