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… - Amma Darko

Why couldn’t I take control of my own life, since after all, I was virtually husbandless and, what did my husband care about a woman’s virtue? If I was sleeping with men and charging them for it, it was me giving myself to them. The body being used and misused belonged to me.

After all, I was also party to it all even if involuntarily. And I guess that my punishment for it is that I am stuck with Oves for the rest of my life. I have decided to stop thinking about ever going home. I just don’t belong there any longer.

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