Because I am a girl

de John Eldard K.

"Shamim Ngabo finds herself at crossroads; she has nobody to defend her from her father's intentions of ejecting her from school and marrying her off to a man fit to be her father in exchange for money in form of bride price. On the eve of the wedding, she plans and acts quickly to abscond from home, ending up at a remote island, where she finds herself in a home of a Catechist. She is a shock to her father when she presents herself after six years in a nurse's uniform"--Page [4] of cover.