The Great Slave
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Last published Tue, Feb 9, 2021
A novel teaching northern nigerian children about the slave trade through the story of a young girl named kamlah. A young girl which was taken as a slave to america in the early 1800 where she met her father which was also lost when she was little , which led into a journey of self discovery and bravery. And heart throbbing events which led her back to her nation as an independent and strong woman, also including the events that conspired in the north her hometown during her absence
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Maryam never had a say. Although her situation wasn't her fault, people never fail to rub it in her face. If she was a child out of wedlock, she wouldn't have been sad. Atleast she'd be paying for her parent's sin. If she was an Almajira, she'd still lift her head up high and accept what ever the world threw at her, atleast she would still be paying for her parent's sin for throwing her out into the streets. If she was a prostitute, Heck! she'd stand proud and tall, atleast it was her decision to sell her body to men. But, she was neither one of this things. She had lost her father, a day before she was born. Her mother got married to someone else a week later! That marriage came with a whole lot of burden. A burden she was subjected to by her gullible mother. A burden she had no choice but to embrace.
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