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Index
Cover
Landing Page
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
‘I was a girl once…’
‘It was a big, muddy yard…’
‘It was like the corralling of cattle…’
The woman led me across…’
‘And the leaves of the trees are…’
‘I was crossing the yard …’
‘Buki, short for Bukola…’
‘Barbed wire above us…’
‘The rain was torrential…’
‘The camp was almost deserted…’
‘A wife of the emir…’
‘The pains started in…’
‘A whine, a whistle…’
‘After the trudge…’
‘Buki and I stood…’
‘Butterflies scudding about…’
‘The place was deathly silent…’
‘The city is teeming with…’
‘If you smiled, you would be far prettier…’
‘At first sight of each other…’
‘It was a feverish day…’
‘I think it strange when…’
‘My last sight of the…’
‘The welcome home party…’
‘Uncle and Mama…’
‘Mama is pulling me out of bed…’
‘First it was her shadow…’
‘Mama lay on the bed…’
‘The woman came in the dead of night…’
‘Mama marched in…’
‘There was no track…’
‘As the double doors of the convent…’
‘There were no gates…’
‘Once a month Babby and I…’
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