EARLY PREGNANCY

sod

hut after hearing me scream, and the other wom

said was, "Did you eat any food from th

g manner and said, "Make sur

a man when I said I woul

All of you, drop her," he said confusedly. Th

re that Alhaji doesn'

and three young girls from the youngest wife who will

n pregnant yet, so they don't

t have a male child because the

xchange for cows and lands

who could bear a male child

her because I don't think Alhaji wo

efully sent off to marry an Alhaji, and

ignored her. She ended up killing the

her said someone told her that she was cap

o punish anyone who mentio

hter, and anyone who mentions h

ppen to Miriam, which is why M

pened to her first daugh

she already envisioned a better life for h

ntil he felt the need t

he only one at home her

the Medicine man's h

get some herbs because he answered from t

d you refused to listen. You have mo

ked a leaf mixed with some other

ve it to me, comma

nce while he used some g

ve my child. I'm not feeling

should be thanking Allah you were brought here early be

ack, and I did as he used a

and said that the chil

ow escape. Next time won't be this way sinc

but you would have lost your l

avesdropping on our conversati

walked away, and he started, "If I tell you

I needed to know who it wa

loor, but I stood up to li

wife?" I asked him. He smiled and said, "The

put an end to her life, so

numb for a moment as goosebumps filled my

?" I raised my voice, then realizing

g about," I said, expecting hi

ve it," he added, "but from hen

Alhaji came and requested to carry me back home, but I de

lost in thought about

t she helped Miriam es