Dimple Pimple

In Africa, there's a country called Tanzania. It's a very, very hot country.

There was a girl—her name was Dimple. Dimple Duzung Jengazu. That's an African name. Everybody used to call her Dimple.

Her father's name was Mogambo, and her mama's name was Cherios.

Cherios and Mogambo lived in Tanzania. It's a hot country, and Mogambo was a farmer. He used to farm the land, till the land. He grew paddy, wheat, and rice. He was not very rich, but not very poor.

His wife, Cherios—the only thing she always cared about was how to dress up properly, how to try to look pretty.

Mogambo would say, "Oh my God, you're so vain. All day I work hard. All you care about is putting lipstick and powder on your face and mascara."

But Cherios was a very nice lady. She used to take care of a lot of her family.

Then they had a daughter, Dimple. And Dimple was one big missy. All she cared about was changing 25 dresses the whole day, just like her mummy, like Cherios.

So in the morning she had a different dress. Mogambo was like, "Oh my God!" Mogambo couldn't care less. He had no hair on his head, and he was very fierce-looking. "Argh!" he'd get angry.

Dimple was very, very good in her studies—especially very good in physics, mathematics, science, and chemistry. She grew up and she was a very pretty girl. All the girls and the boys liked her. She used to do a lot of chemistry experiments.

Then one day—the day was Wednesday. Everybody remembered that day. It was Wednesday, 14th of June, 2019.

Dimple was walking to school. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a big, ugly pimple sprouted on her nose. She didn't notice it.

When she reached school, everybody was like, "Oh!"

Dimple was very vain. She went and looked in the mirror, and she was very, very scared. So the whole day she covered it.

Then she went back home and said, "Mama, I want to do something about this pimple."

So now Dimple had a pimple.

They said, "What can we do? We'll apply mascara and then apply this cream and that cream."

But the pimple would not go. She kept trying for many days. The pimple was there, and it kept growing bigger and bigger and bigger.

She tried to put cream. She tried to put ice. She tried to put chilies. Everybody used to give her advice for free. It was called free advice, which was useless advice. People said, "Do this, do that."

Then Cherios had her mummy, which was Dimple's nani. Her name was Helen.

Helen said, "What you do—you take some mustard oil, boil the mustard oil, put some cumin seeds in it, put some lime in it, and then keep it out in the open the whole day. Next day you get some fish, let the fish swim in this oil. The fish will change the color of the oil. And then you apply it on your nose."

It was a very, very, very funny recipe. She put it on the nose—nothing happened. The pimple only grew bigger.

Mogambo was a little silly man. He said, "Why don't you just burst it with a needle?"

So Dimple tried to burst it with a needle. It burst, but it came back again and it got infected.

Dimple was very sad and became very unhappy because she had a big pimple in the middle of her nose. But her friends didn't mind. They had got used to it, but she was always thinking about it.

She said, "I must do something to cure it."

So she started studying about it. She started researching about it. She read and read as to why pimples come on the nose or the face.

She realized that pimples come because sometimes dirt gets accumulated on your skin. It's a very fine dirt. And because your skin is oily, and if you don't clean it often, the oil gets stuck. Then the body skin pushes the dirt out, and then the pimple stays. And because there is a little bit of infection there, she said, "What can you do?"

Then she was a very good chemist herself. So she took a little bit of the pimple from her nose and put it in a test tube and did experiments.

She saw a very particular type of bacteria was there. Staphylophilus lactobacillus—the name of the bacteria. What was it? Staphylophilus lactobacillus.

And she found the cure for it. She put two types of chemicals, and she could cure this bacteria. Then she created a small ointment and put it on.

Within one day, the pimple had gone. She was very happy.

Then all the people in Tanzania realized that Dimple had found a cure for a pimple. So they started coming to her.

She had made this cream. But it worked for some people, it didn't work for others because it was a different type of bacteria.

So what she would do is she would take a little bit of the pimple first, check what type of bacteria, and then make an ointment.

She was in school, but every day, 6, 7, 8, 10 people were coming, and they wanted to get the pimple removed. They were giving her money also.

Mogambo, although he was silly, he knew how to make money. He realized this, so he made a clinic for her. Every day, people were coming to cure the pimple.

Then slowly, from Tanzania to all the other countries in Africa, people realized that Dimple had found a cure for the pimple. She started sending all the medicines and creams everywhere in Africa and America.

Anybody who had got a pimple could put the cream, and the pimple would go away.

And she created—you know what was the name of the cream that she made?

Dimple Pimple.

And that's the silly, silly name.

She became a very, very rich and successful woman. But not only rich and successful—she also helped so many people because they could not take away the pimple from it.

Then she went and licensed her technology to many, many big countries, cosmetics companies, and so on.

So that's the story.