It pained us. She was one of the forest dames.

 

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The Forest Dames

 

“Okay. Sofuruchi came home sometime ago and narrated her experience with the Benedanja soldier who took her to his homeland. Sure you heard that after all the hiding she was eventually captured towards the end of the war.”
 

“Oh yes, we heard it. It really pained me but it only ended up as one of those pains? At least the man didn’t just dump her when leaving. He took her to his hometown.”
 

"E-e-wo o, the soldier, Sunday, had taken Sofuru to his hometown in Benedanja, as his wife, at the end of the war but she was rejected on the grounds that she was not only a non-indigene, but also an Edanja. Her abductor had to pick another woman from among his people. Sofuru was already pregnant but that did not matter to her ‘husband’s’ people, who considered it great kindness to allow her to stay on, as the man’s other wife. Sofuru remained there and had since had children for the man.”


Culled from "The Forest Dames" true Life Biafran experience. The book is available at Silverbird Galleria bookshop, Abuja; Quintessence, Falomo Shopping Complex, Awolowo road Ikoyi, Lagos and Debonair bookstores, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo Yaba, Lagos. Also at Booksellers shops (opposite Biobak), Garki 2, Abuja; and Pen and pages, Wuse 2 Abuja. Also at amazon.com/theforestdames, Barnes and Noble, AuthorHouse and other online marketers.