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“How could I tell her that I had failed to preserve my dignity? I was too ashamed to let her see the fickle shell I’d become. Inevitably, it became unbearable. The more she pushed, the more I resisted. I didn’t want a job! I didn’t want a white wedding! I just wanted the war between who I used to be and who I’d become to end. I didn’t want to fight anymore.”
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
“If you drag her by the hair, she’ll follow you anywhere, I swear it!”
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
“They say the elder who soils the floor with shit immediately forgets, but the stench remains in the memory of the person who has to pack it. Some people are born to shit, and some, like Bolanle and me, are born to pack.”
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
“Only a foolish woman leans heavily on a man's promises”
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
“Don’t think I can’t see the challenges ahead of me. People will say I am a secondhand woman. Men will hurt and ridicule me but I won’t let them hold me back. I will remain in the land of the living. I am back now and the world is spread before me like an egg cracked open.”
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
― The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Nanyoni’s 2024 Year in Books
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