"lost pregnancies and buried babies”"

"the Igala and Edo traders, [and] the white-skinned men”"

"his name [is] Anikwenwa as far as she [is] concerned”"

"like a person diligently acting a bizarre pantomime”"

"silently carve[s] designs on her pottery uncertain of how to handle a woman crying about things that did not deserve …"

"primitive culture instead of a worthwhile topic like African Alliances in the American-Soviet Tensions”"

"grace in her straight back”"

"sharp-tongued, headstrong,” and he often found her exhausting because she was the type of girl who crossed gender lin…"

"she, unlike others, had not spent too much time going round and round in her speech”"

"she had believed that her chi and his chi had destined their marriage” and could not otherwise be deterred from her p…"