THEY PUSHED HER OFF A CLIFF… NOBODY WAS READY FOR WHAT CAME NEXT

demanded it, not because her family placed her there, but because they wanted her near. Young women came to her for advice. Mothers pointed her out to their daughters.

No one pointed Chidima out.

“Mama,” Chidima asked one evening, “do you think the prophecy is really about Amara?”

Her mother didn’t look up from her work.

“The elders seem to think so.”

“But continue reading …