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My grandmother left Calabar and went back to the village when I told her I was doing well in the university and that I always passed my exams. “You will pass because you said you will be smarter than the white man. God and my fathers are with you. Look at me now; I’m empty-handed because Itu people have taken my house and all my property. I am now like a child with nothing to my name. But God and my fathers are keeping me alive so that I will pour water for you when you pass your degree. Read your books.”
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Iyam, D.U. (2013). Then She Left. In: Matriarchy and Power in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137382795_10
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