Omo!!!
A very versatile cry the Nigerian people use to express any emotion.

Omo! Tolani shouts as she looks at her result with the sixth letter of the alphabet sprawled across her exam sheet like a map.

Omo! Chimaka sighs as she loosens from the grip of her talented musician, after her cords were stroked in the right manner, that made melodious sounds erupt from her lips.

Omo! Kazeem said as he jumped the gutter escaping by a hair's length the zoom of a car driven by a mad dog with dark shades on.

Omo! I shouted as I watched the house burn down, with the smell of burning flesh swaying in the atmosphere like a sunday morning meal.
© Faith Daniel