"Your life is your road, Mara. God puts you at the start of this road and propels you to walk on, and only He knows wh…"

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

"… this ministries man, he is not only a bad man and bad husband, he has also got something inside his head. I only ho…"

"what African man gets angry because his wife was carrying a baby? And the first baby at that."

"He was lying on the mattress, face up, looking thoughtfully at the ceiling when I entered. Cool, composed and authori…"

".....Akobi beat me a lot at home, yes, but somehow I identified beatings like this with home. That African men also b…"

"At first I didn’t understand, because here, we hear always that African people are hard workers and love work because…"

"Why couldn’t I take control of my own life, since after all, I was virtually husbandless and, what did my husband car…"

"You were green then, Mara. Totally green. And I was also in love with Osey then. And I did what Osey ordered me to do…"

"My husband brings me from home to a foreign land and puts me in a brothel to work, and what money I make, he uses to …"