CHAPTER 13(JOY)
The baby was giving Aku-nna a lot of pain.Chike’s brother,who is a doctor,was coming and examining Aku-nna.He said she was too small and needed an operation for childbirth.
In Ibuza Ofulue offered a bride price to Okonkwo but he refused again.Okonkwo’s little doll was stolen and he paid a medicine man a lot of money to make a new doll.He said “This will call Aku-nna back in the wind”
Many times Aku-nna woke up and said that her uncle was calling her back.One night she suddenly screamed and they understood that the baby was coming.They went to hospital.The doctor told him that she had to have an operation.
The operation was unsuccesful for Aku-nna,she died.But they had a girl.Before she died she wanted Chike to be very happy and to call their girl “Joy”.
Afterwards every girl in Ibuza was told the sad story of Aku-nna.”If you want to live long” they were told”You must accept