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Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club pick)
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a “louding voice” the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni s father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir. When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is nothing.
Review: The Girl with the Louding Voice
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The Girl with the Louding Voice, is not a comfortable read, but reviewer
Gail Collins couldn’t put down this tale of a Nigerian girl whose life is dominated by lack of education, poverty and modern slavery.
FACT: Despite the creation in 2003 of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, to tackle human trafficking and related crimes such as child labour, a 2006 UNICEF report showed that approximately 15m children under the age of 14, mostly girls, were working across Nigeria.
It is currently estimated that seven out of every 1,000 Africans are trafficked into slavery (Walk Free Foundation & The International Labour Office).