The Impatient Amal Djaili Amadou
The Impatient Amal Djaili Amadou A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions--including polygamy…
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The Impatient Amal Djaili Amadou
A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions--including polygamy and domestic abuse--that define and limit their lives.Three women, three stories, three linked destinies . . Safira, her co-wife, juggles envy and empathy for this new bride with disappointment in the husband she desperately loves. .In North Cameroon, well-to-do young Ramla is torn from her true love and wed to a manipulative older man.
They are advised to have munyal--patience. Like her older sister, Ramla, Hindou is married off to a man she does not know or want, a distant cousin whose instability and violence terrifies her.From an early age, these women were raised to submit to men, or risk shame and repudiation of themselves and their families. They are told that their