Another Short Story from a Young Namibian Writer

Angel Amukongo at NPH Offices in Windhoek

Angel Amukongo attends Suiderhof Primary School. She is in Grade 5. She loves books. Her passion is reading and writing. Her dream is to have her stories published, so she can share them with other learners.

NPH is very happy to help realise that dream. At the same time, we would like to invite teachers to submit to us best short stories of their learners (maximum one page long) so we can publish them on our blog.

Stories must be typed and sent as a Word document to info@nph.com.na. 

Good luck writing!

The Story of Romania

Angel Amukongo

Once upon a time, there lived a very clever and obedient girl named Romania. Romania was a smart girl who lived with her mother in a little town called Mah. Although Mah was a capital, some people called it a little town because it was very small.

Mah was a small beautiful town that had a river and hard-working people. It had enough land where people could plant crops alongside the river for their families and to sell so that they could earn money.

Years have passed and there was no rain. The river started getting dryer and dryer each season until it dried up completely. All the crops were dying. People were suffering hunger and some were forced by the situation to leave the town.

Romania‘s mothers dream was for her daughter to be educated and become a doctor. She decided to leave the capital and move to another town where they could grow crops again and her daughter could go to the right school. They packed their belongings and left for a town called Moah.

Moah was more than seven thousand kilometers away from Mah. Once there, they started another life, but Romania always missed her friends and her town Mah, where she was born.

Ten years later, Romania’s mother died suddenly. Romania was on her own, but she finished her studies and graduated. She got married and was blessed with a daughter whom she named after her mom.

Together with her family, Romania soon left Moah and went back to her homeland Mah. When she saw the state in which her beloved town was, she decided to build a hospital there to help the people of Mah who were suffering a lot.

She became the first doctor to open a state hospital in Mah and enjoyed her work very much. With time, the news spread to the surrounding villages and more people came for help to the hospital. The town started growing again, and when the rains returned, the river filled up and the town was just as beautiful as it used to be.