“ME LE NU FIAM, NE LE KPE KPORM”
(BIG BOTTOS FOLKTALE ABOUT HO LADIES)
There’s this popular folktale in the South about the huge backsides in Ho and it has been a tale told for years! Can’t say if it’s a made up story or a true story but then this story is very popular.
Ho is known for having Ladies with huge and flexible backsides who get to “shake it like their mama gave them” when dancing #Borborbor!
Just go wherever there’s a group of Ladies dancing Borborbor and you’d be amazed and electrified at the same time.
I don’t have the Ewe keyboard so spare me when I write Ewe in the “English Ewe” style.
The saying goes like “Me le nufiam ne le kpe kporm”, and it literally means; “You, I am teaching and you are watching Bottos”!
It has a continuing statement but then the phrase we usually use is “Melenufiam nelekpekporm”. And we get to say it when we catch somebody with their eyes fixated on a huge backside like y’all would do when you enter Ho. Your car go jam for gutter if you no take care laaa.
Story has it that a Teacher was transferred to Ho and like the many Bottos watching friends I got ehhh, he couldn’t keep his eyes off the numerous big backside Ladies Ho sure can boast of. If you like ask Elorm Beenie or the Chairman himself Stanley Adjei about Ho and big backsides decently on display everywhere!
But then unlike the senior Bottos watchers like Fredrick Kofi Deladem Dro and Chief MC Arnold Wailer, This Teacher couldn’t keep only his eyes on and his hands off, He forgot the code is a “watch more and touch less” and went touching ad enjoying.
He got to touch one and enjoyed so much that he kept touching touching and touching until something “huhuhu” happened which eventually led him to make this statement.
I don’t know if his heart was broken or he invested all his investment on the beautiful “Mamanyigba’s” in Ho.
But then story has it that he was teaching one day and a student of his had his eyes fixated in a huge Bottos outside and so he looked at him and with a voice of advice said to him;
“Me le nu fiam, ne le kpe kporm”(I am teaching and you watching Bottos). And then he continued;
“Ne nye nu si kpe wor nam le Ho gborkemea, Nye ma nor nu fiam, na nor kpe kporm o, ”(If you know what Big Bottos has done to me in this Ho township ehhh, I won’t be teaching and you would be watching Bottos at all).
So this is the story. And this is not to promote indecency in anyway but just to remind everyone of my friends that, Ho is known for having women with huge backsides like the hills that surround the town. Be like they take the shape of the hills because dem backside huge like the “klepe hills” and “Mount Afadja”(Afadjato).
One more reason to be in Ho this weekend is to come “watch more and touch less”. But if you want to be like the Teacher then come let’s have an adventure laaa. You isokay! See you in Ho this weekend for the #AsogliYamFestival.
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