Madam Koi Koi

Madam Koi Koi (Lady Koi Koi, Miss Koi Koi, also known in Ghana as Madam High Heel or Madam Moke, Tanzania as Miss Konkoko, South Africa as Pinky Pinky) is a ghost in Nigerian and African urban legend who haunts dormitories, hallways and toilets in boarding schools at night, while in day schools she haunts toilets and students who come to school too early or leave school late. She is often depicted wearing a pair of red heels or wearing a single heel. She is one of the most popular boarding school ghosts in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.[1][2]

Etymology

The name "Madam Koi Koi" is taken from the sound her heels makes whenever she comes to prey on students at night,[3][4] while in Ghana the name "Madam Moke" is taken from the Ghanaian word for high heels.

Origin

There are several stories that tell the origin of Madam Koi Koi.

Nigeria

In Nigeria, one legend said she was a beautiful teacher in a secondary school. She was known for her beauty and her red heels. Whenever she walked in the hallways her shoes would make the sound 'Koi Koi'. It was also said that she was very nasty to students and would beat them up for no reason. She was fired when she slapped a female student and injured her ear. On her journey back home, Madam Koi Koi was involved in an accident and died. Before she died she swore that she would have her revenge on the school and its students. Not too long after, students of the secondary school said at night they would hear a 'Koi Koi' sound in the hallways of their dormitories after lights out, almost like the clicking of heels on a floor.

In another tale

She was a very stylish woman who loved to wear high heel shoes and this became her signature look. She was also a very wicked teacher who flogged the living daylight out of her students every chance she got. Some said she was a straight up sadist and used being a teacher as an excuse to inflict extreme pain and torture whenever she pleased. Her students, tired of the school management’s failure to reprimand her, decided to take matters into their own hands. One night, as she was leaving the school, the students cornered her, gagged her so she wouldn’t scream, and began to beat her mercilessly. One of them even took of one of her shoes and beat her with it. Then she stopped moving. They had overdone it. She was dead. The students panicked. They threw her body over the school’s back fence and ran. People were going to assume armed robbers did the damage. They were in the clear. Or so they thought. One by one the students began to vanish. All but one. The one who had hit her with the shoe. He constantly told everyone what he and the others had done and that he heard the sound of high heels clacking around his hostel every night which he believed meant that she was coming for him but no one believed him. They thought he was just trying to scare them. One night, he decided to go find out where the sound was coming from. He never returned. His body was found in the morning. He had been beaten to death. The school was shut down and all the kids were sent home. These kids, now knowing that the boy was right all along, spread the legend to their new schools. She walks the halls of hostels at night tormenting students and it's also said that if you decide to peep or look at her, you will disappear and never will be seen again.[1][5]

Ghana

In Ghana, one of the legends said she was a teacher, who taught at a certain school where the students were very troublesome and she spent most of her time chasing them around, trying to bring them to order. One day she chased a boy across a street, waving one of her shoes in the air as she went, but didn’t see a car coming and was knocked down and killed instantly. Her red high heeled shoe was sent flying away.

Till this day, her ghost is said to appear in classrooms in the form of a single red shoe… whilst a voice screams out, “where’s my shoe”. The legend also said if you ever come across her, you are supposed to run and scream “Madam High heel!!!”.[6]

Spread

The story has since spread across Africa with different versions of Madam Koi Koi in Cameroon, Ghana Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia and South Africa.

Activities

Miss Koi Koi is mainly known for haunting school premises with activities ranging from opening school doors, singing, whistling, attacking people in toilets or the bathroom, or slapping students. Her presence is always accompanied by her footsteps, She may also be invisible save for her heel. In some tales she often disturbs students at night, demanding her heel which is said to be missing.

Pinky Pinky

In South African urban legend Pinky Pinky is a creature that is part human, part animal, part man, part woman, preying on children in school toilets and threatening to rape girls if they wear pink underwear. It is visible to girls, but invisible to boys, who experience its presence through a slap or a scratch on a cheek.

Madam Koi Koi is the antagonist in the children book Feyi Fay and the case of the Mysterious Madam Koi Koi by Simisayo Brownstone[7]

See also

References
  1. "The Legend of Madam Koi Koi". Pulse.
  2. "5 Common Nigeria myth". Style vitae.
  3. "Popular Nigerian Urban Legends". Medium.
  4. Edwin, Madu (July 15, 2013). "Scary Nigeria Urban Legends". Edwin madu. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  5. "Nigeria myth Miss Koi Koi".
  6. Kofi, Samuel (8 August 2020). "Was Madam Mike real".
  7. "Feyi Fay and the case of the mysterious Madam Koi Koi".
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