HIAF 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-12: Medicine Man, Savings Account, Igbuzo
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Hiaf 111 textbook notes the joys of motherhood, chapters 5-12. Chapter 5: a failed woman: kia-kia bus "quick-quick" bus, privately owned busses that transport people when they are full, rather than the public busses that constantly stop and take forever. She wanted to die since her child was dead, and she explained this: women said she would have more children, nwakusor takes nnu ego back to her husband. Illegal for anyone to die at home, to prevent the native people from going to the medicine man, so they were going to have to keep the death of the baby quiet. Chapter 7: the duty of a father: 3 months later, white people "pale like pigs" Iyawo the yoruba name given to a woman without any children, meaning "new wife" with the women: oshia jealous of the attention being given to his brother.
