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hich there are plates, drinking gourd and a bowl containing water. Having finished h

ne to feel relaxed and that is true”. “What about the Methodist Missionaries?” “Aha! Those ones are different from the Europeans that came, their motive is to change our beliefs and traditions and also to make us imbibe their ways and worship their foreign God”. The litt

to pay any attention to him. “Pull yourself together; there is nothing to fear about. No father hates his children, besides; giving a daughter to marriage to a respectable and wel

as if she had misbegotten the words, her eyes widen

“don’t you know the prince getting married to our daughter is the fastest way that I could get wealthy and I needed money to pay for yam-seeds, and hirer labourers that would cultivate the farm, others have done theirs while I am still sitting down, folding my hands and legs together like a man, who is weighed down by age not only that, we will be highly respected by the villagers, can’t you see the benefit”, he beamed with excitement. You talked about in

o follow Ekenma to farm despite the warnings Mazi Ochia had given to him, while on the way to the farm, Nwoye usually walked ahead of her getting the grasses that nosed their way out and making pa

to the village outskirt there they will be waiting for the priest to lead the way. Nwoye was expecting to see her mother at home, he called her, there was no responds, he went to the back of the hut, and he still

n off the white clay marks on her body and to change her white silk material, when she came out Nwoye has already made a conflagration, the night were cool, the frogs croaked heavily, he

barely the crack of dawn and people were not yet up. She made for her large earthen pot that sat lazily under the rafters and headed to the strea

u know there is cold out there?” She was made to talk but she only heaved a sigh at last she regained her voice, saying contrarily, “I am still strong to do the house chores; Ekenma would not be the only one doing it all”. Nwoye gasped and told her, “I do no