"She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, not the kind of loud sobbing that the women Chika knows do, the…"

"She will listen to BBC radio and hear the accounts of the deaths and the riots - "religious with undertones of ethnic…"

"Like how the government of General Abacha was using its foreign policy to legitimize itself in the eyes of other Afri…"

"The woman sighs and Chika imagines that she is thinking of her necklace, probably plastic beads threaded on a piece o…"

"But she has no reason to agree or disagree, she knows nothing about riots..."

"Even without the woman’s strong Hausa accent, Chika can tell she is a Northerner, from the narrowness of her face, th…"

"Later, Chika will learn that, as she and the woman are speaking, Hausa Muslims are hacking down Igbo Christians with …"

"“[S]he knows nothing about riots: the closest she has come is the pro-democracy rally at the university a few weeks a…"

"as she and the woman are speaking, Hausa Muslims are hacking down Igbo Christians with machetes, clubbing them with s…"

"private, as though she is carrying out a necessary ritual that involves no one else” ** Page 51."