I have decided to stop thinking about ever going home. I just don’t belong there any longer. - Amma Darko

My husband brings me from home to a foreign land and puts me in a brothel to work, and what money I make, he uses to pay the rent on his lover’s apartment, to renovate a house for her in village back home. I came to Gerhardt expecting the worst, but this was even worse than I had conceived of.

...when the seed of a curse finds fertile ground in a human mind, it spreads with the destructive speed of a creeping plant. And while it does, it nurtures superstition, which in turn, eats into all reasoning abilities and the capability of facing responsibility

At first I didn’t understand, because here, we hear always that African people are hard workers and love work because God made them specially for the hard work of the world…