Summary

Chapter 6 begins with Yejide hiking up a hill. She is exhausted, thirsty, and hungry and is walking a reluctant goat up the mountain. At the top of the mountain she sees a circle of men, and one man (the prophet) tells her the goat is her child. The prophet swaddles the goat like a baby and puts it in her arms and tells her to dance. As she dances the goat begins to look like a newborn, and the prophet makes Yejide feed the goat from her own breast. He tells her that “even if no man comes near you this month, you will be pregnant” (53). Yejide leaves the circle hopeful.

Chapter 7 changes to Akin’s perspective as he receives the news from Yejide that she is pregnant. He is disbelieving and tells her the people she went to are “total conmen” (56). She...