Daughters of the Savannah
Halima Yusuf
Daughters of the Savannah
Halima YusufTSh 25,000
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About this book
Four generations of women in one compound, told backwards, from a granddaughter's wedding to a great-grandmother's arrival with nothing but a copper bowl.
Sample
My mother measured a woman's life in dry seasons, and by that measure she had lived thirty-nine and expected forty. We were four sisters in a compound built for sons. The wall on the western side was mud where the others were brick, because my father had run out of money in the year I was born and never forgave the coincidence. When the land officer came with his papers, he addressed the wall rather than us, as though the house itself might sign. Aisha laughed. Aisha always…
The author
Halima Yusuf writes from Kano about the interior lives of northern Nigerian women.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 302
- Published
- 2021
- Chapters available
- 1