Nilefa: The Union
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Having lived 20 years of her life in the UK, Yasmeen returns with her family to Nigeria as her father sets out to run for the governorship of Nilefa, their home.
As if his sudden interest in politics wasn't baffling enough, she meets arrangements put in place of a union with the son of a political mogul.
This story is fiction and Nilefa is an imaginary Kanuri state in Nigeria.
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