by Naomi Lucas
Seeing her husband at the end of the burial procession made my blood boil. He killed her! If he hadn’t married her she wouldn’t have died… Then I saw he wasn’t walking properly because he was crying so hard and my heart softened a bit.
Mid-Late 80s
I exhaled audibly.
“I don try gaskiya. You know since wen I don dey fight my parents before dem even allow her grow like this? Na me say by force she must finish secondary school. At least she don reach 17 years. E no too bad now, abi?”
I drove by earlier today and saw Halima sitting on a bench, reading; completely unaware of the running battle her elder sister endlessly fights on her behalf. I remembered all the clamour for the rights of the girl child and muttered a silent prayer for her and her brave sister, Hajia, who is all that stands between her and harm’s way.
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