Your life is your road, Mara. God puts you at the start of this road and propels you to walk on, and only He knows where your road will end, but it i… - Amma Darko

.....Akobi beat me a lot at home, yes, but somehow I identified beatings like this with home. That African men also beat their wives in Europe somehow didn’t fit into my glorious picture of European life.

what African man gets angry because his wife was carrying a baby? And the first baby at that.

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.