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• Asante   Chapter 12

  "Daddy!"Sade ran into the waiting arms of her father. He had made good on his promise to travel down all the way from his new base at Osogbo to welcome his lovely daughter back home and to usher her into another phase of her life. Her mother stood beside her father, smiling proudly as her daughter got enveloped in the warm embrace of her father.

• Asante   Chapter 11

  "That is how we shall go about it, my wife," Agbede said to his wife. Mama nodded as she praised her husband's ingenuity. She was rather happy that her husband and Moriah's husband had moved the consummation of her daughter's marriage forward. She had been skeptical about the month-long postponement as she suspected strongly that her daughter, Moriah, had a sinister plan up her sleeve.Their daughter, Moriah, was away at school as it was the last day of her exam. The tools for the activation of the Àsánte custom was already in place, waiting to be put

• Asante   Chapter 10

  The Professor was home for the weekend and was relaxing on the verandah of their little cottage-like house, listening to a radio programme on his little portable radio that a friend had given him on his return from England only months ago, when his wife walked up to him.He looked up as the smell of her perfume wafted to him, announcing her presence and smiled warmly at her as she got to him and lowered her head to give him a kiss on the lips. His colleagues never stopped teasing him about his 'Oloyinbo' ways with his wife, meaning that he never conducted his marriage in the African fashion, but after the fashion of their colonial masters, the British, popu

• Asante   Chapter 9

  Agbekoya rolled his bicycle to a stop. He secured it by leaning it against the dwarf coconut tree along the path. He ran hastily after the group of girls on their way to the riverside. He had spied his wife, Moriah, his friend, Agbede's daughter, among them. He called her name hoarsely and the girls all turned back. There was a titter of murmur among the girls as Moriah was pushed backwards towards him. One of the girls even slapped her on the buttocks as they turned back to continue on their journey to the river, leaving Moriah to her fate as she faced her intende

• Asante   Chapter 8

  "My mom is in collaboration with some people; what they do is to help girls who are of age to escape to a better life." Sade suddenly became quiet as she straightened up. Moriah looked up in time to see their Science teacher sauntering towards them. He was a strict man who did not tolerate any form of laxity in the students at all. And, he was feared by all, even more than their principal."Hey! What are you two doing in the middle of the field?!" he hollered even before he reached the girls.

• Asante   Chapter 7

  Mama had dared not challenge the bold woman for she knew the outcome of such a challenge; she would only incur moe insults from the women that day. So, she had fetched her water quietly and gone home peacefully without uttering a single word to the mockery of the women."Don't turn yourself into a laughing stock, Moriah!" her mother said as she remembered the incident at the river, which she never told anybody, not even her husband.