“God says the Africans are the tribes of Ham”
Ruth May Price
“I felt the breath of ___ go cold on my skin.”
God
Fundamental Congolese concept regarding life and death: Mom No
Nommo
“And you’ll say I walked across Africa with my wrists unshackled, and now I am one more soul walking free in a white skin…”
Orleanna Price
“To live is to ___, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.”
change
Cheeky bird: East Elm Hut
Methuselah
“What I respect what I have seen. Nothing can stay the same, when somebody new walks into your house bringing gifts.”
Anatole
“He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his ___.“
History
Former ruler of the Congo: Doglike Lion Pi
king Leopold II
“Now a real fire beat in my temples, all the fevers I’d ever begged for, caught up to me at last. All at once I understood the pinch on my neck was Mother.”
Rachel Price
naked
First democratically elected president: Immaculate Burp
Patrice Lumumba