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Chapters 1 and 2

· The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. George Braziller, Inc., New York, NY, 1979. 2007 Edition.

· Chapter 1, “The Mother,” begins on page 7.

· “The Mother” opens in 1934.

· Nnu Ego is running away from the British-owned Yaba housing estate in Lagos, Nigeria.

· As Nnu Ego runs her breasts ache with pain from producing milk after having a baby boy four weeks prior.

· Milk trickles out of her breasts and onto her blouse.

· It is early in the morning and some of the few who are out ask Nnu Ego if she is okay, but she never stops.

· When Nnu Ego reaches the Oyingbo market, sellers are beginning to set up their wares.

· Nnu Ego bumps into a blind beggar as he emerges from a seller’s stall to begin his day of begging.

· The beggar, thinking he is...

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