TerryP
Hi, Elsie. I'm delighted that a Nigerian has found my stories.
I'm many years from the delights of African markets, palaver over the goods there, and the small boys enjoying pinching my heel to make me think a snake bit me.
But I've managed to weave my experience in Africa in some of my stories, and draw on real people who lived their lives to the fullest under harsh conditions.
Thank you for voting on In His Sensuous Arms set in Germany where I served as a soldier.
It's nice to meet you.
TerryP
TerryP
@elsiedennis6 Hi again. Among the unexpected surprises that I observed are the humanitarian efforts of Wata Modad from Liberia. I wasn't even sure that her Lebanese husband Sherief had officially married her when they ran a store in Bolahun. She was a quiet, humble woman of the Loma tribe. At the time she was expecting her first child. Because there was a tradition of informal cohabitation with "Country Wives," I asked Sherief what about the child? He likely married her. She lost that child, her son told me in an email. They moved their business to Liberia's capital. They continued to have children. She then became head of a women's movement in Liberia. Somehow she acquired the education and developed organizational skills not apparent to us in Bolahun. Her son relayed their greetings to me some years before he died.
elsiedennis6
@TerryP will be delighted to note some of the changes although we still have our set backs like in my country Nigeria we still have problem of boko haram in some states but that hasn't stopped the development of the country albeit it has slowed it and also the problem of corrupt leaders but i pray that when we grow up we will be able to take a stand for our country and fight the problems she is facing like the Liberian women