one did not really go to school to learn about Africa. — No Sweetness Here

"He was beautiful, but that was not important.”"

"Please, Chicha, I always know you are just making fun of me, but please, promise me won’t take Kwesi away with you.”"

"One’s yams reflect the sum total of one’s life. And mine look wretched enough.”"

"Kodjo Fi was a selfish and bullying man, whom no decent woman ought to have married. He got on marvellously with his two other wives but they were three of a feather"

"Now all I must do is to try and prepare myself for another pregnancy, for it seems this is the reason why I was created . . . to be pregnant for nine of the twelve months of every year. . . . Or is there a way out of it at all? And where does this road lie?"

"[I]t was six o’clock…this time, I did not run”"