Hustling Is Not Stealing : Stories of an African Bar Girl

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1(1) Excerpt from ``Junior Wife'' 1(4) Preamble: Stories and Their Critics 5(3) Africa: The End of the Earth Where the World Began 8(4) The Politico-economic Techno-philosophical Socio-historical Global-developmental Backdrop 12(19) The View from Ground Level 31(14) Cities as the Heavens of This Earth 45(17) Commodity Traders 62(16) Digression on the End of the World 78(8) Ethnography to the Second Power 86(16) The Brer Rabbit School of Feminism 102(13) PROCEDURES TO PROTECT IDENTITIES 115(2) A NOTE ON THE TEXT 117(352) PART ONE Into The Life Not Bad As Such 121(35) Like a Letter 121(8) The Village of Don't-Go-There 129(4) More Aunts 133(12) A Brief Adolescence 145(5) Junior Wife 150(6) The Life 156(21) Paradise Hotel 156(3) Cheap Money 159(2) The Price of Tea 161(4) Janet's Baby 165(4) The Problem of Being Small 169(1) Married without a Ring 170(6) Reflections: After the First Year as Ashawo 176(1) Problems of Self-Empowerment 177(44) Repaying Rough with Rough 177(2) The Lebanese Twins 179(6) Deviant Sex 185(7) Really Deviant Sex 192(6) Wounds 198(4) What No Girl Says 202(1) Butterfly Wings 203(2) The Man with Four Noses 205(2) Case Histories 207(14) PART TWO With the British in a Provincial Capital The Chief of Bagabaga 221(27) Nigel's Courtship 221(5) The Two Wives of the Chief of Bagabaga 226(10) Jack Toronto 236(5) Roads Not Taken 241(7) Fucking English People 248(33) William and Abena 248(9) Reflections: Property and Family 257(3) Power Show for Cigarettes 260(6) Cool-Catch-Monkey 266(6) Nigel's Mouth 272(4) A Beating among Friends 276(5) PART THREE Into The Life Again Avoiding the Life 281(15) A Ghanaian Boyfriend 281(8) Reflections: An Independent Life 289(7) With Jacqueline 296(9) To Go to Togo 296(2) At Podo's House 298(3) The Turkey-Tail Man 301(4) A Bad Sickness 305(10) The Treatment 305(4) Love and the Banana 309(6) PART FOUR Juju The Sheer Ubiquity of It 315(5) Issahaku's Medicine 315(1) Christmas for a Juju 316(2) The Keta Girls and the Seaman 318(2) Witches 320(21) Witchfire 320(3) Babies as Strangers 323(2) The Witchcraft of the Senior Mother 325(5) Belief in Witches 330(1) Befriending a Witch 331(2) Interlude: A Special Child 333(2) Befriending a Witch (Conclusion) 335(2) Revenge of a Bedwetter 337(4) Child of the God 341(30) A Wonderful Man 341(3) Pennies in the Hair 344(6) Interlude: Village Playtime 350(4) Return to the Village 354(5) From Frying Pan to Fire 359(5) Reckoning with the God 364(7) Black Power 371(14) Calling the Lost People 371(5) The Master of the Dwarves 376(2) Showing the Power 378(7) PART FIVE The Life in Togo A Fast Boy 385(17) The Rich Biafran 385(2) Frankie and Antonio 387(4) Frankie's Game 391(11) A Nice Prison in Togo 402(39) Django and the Fucking Germans 402(11) Interlude: The Maidservant's Tale 413(7) Louky's Problem 420(6) Prisoners for the Lions 426(7) If All the Prisons Were like This 433(5) Fish from the Sea in Vaginas 438(1) Coda 439(2) I Remember Mama 441(28) Drunkards 441(6) The Trouble with Three Friends 447(7) Quarreling in Secret 454(10) Killer Girls from Ghana 464(5) Epilogue 469(4) Glossary 473