Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective. - Wole Soyinka

Sidi feels empowered by seeing her beauty for the first time in the magazine prints. She recognizes that her beauty is a commodity, allowing her agency to make a future for herself. This is a novel idea: choosing one's own future is reserved for men.

It’s my life that’s gone into his. I haven’t burrowed so deep to cast good earth onto worthless seeds….

When your business men ruin the lesser ones, do you go crying to them? I also have no pity for the one who invested foolishly. Investors, that is all they ever were—to me.