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The action taken by Adah to convince her mother to send her to school was the first sign of victimization of women in Nigeria throughout the book. Yes, Buchi already discussed how nobody really kept records for children because they were less important but when Adah snuck out of her home and went to the school that her neighbor taught out is the real sign of persecution. Ma is the person that was brought down to the police station and tortured, for lack of a better term, until she was threatened to be thrown in jail until she sent her daughter, Adah, to school. This is a sign of victimization of women because Nigeria is a patriarchal society where the men have the final say and women are property so why would Ma be punished and no Pa. The next sign of victimization that is evident in Adah’s life is when Pa passes away and she is sent to live with her cousin because that is how society works. Due to the fact that Adah is a girl she is sent to live with the family members with the least amount of money so she has to give up school unless she got all of her house work done before school for the day. The treatment of Adah by her family is more of the treatment you would find in a plantation home in the southern United States during the 1800s. Yes, she was had cloths, food and a bed to sleep in but she was the house keeper, the water fetcher, the cook and any other assorted chores that the family needed her to do. Finally, the when she marries Francis, the oppression that Adah has to endure is one that no women she have to go through. When Adah wanted to go to work, Francis’ father’s response to Francis was, “You are a fool of a man you are…Where will she take the money to? …The money is for you, can’t you see? Let her go and work for a million Americans and bring,
