The bride price : a novel /
A young Ibo girl named Aku-nna flees an unwanted marriage to be with her true love, Chike, the son of a prosperous former slave. However, Aku-nna's uncle refuses the bride price from Chike's family, an action that frightens Aku-nna for it foreshadows her own death in childbirth.
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New York :
George Braziller,
1976.
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Table of Contents:
- The bride price
- Death
- The burial
- Return to Ibuza
- Life in Ibuza
- Traditions
- The slaves
- A kind of marriage
- Escape
- Tempting providence.