TY - BOOK AU - Alkali, Zaynab TI - The Stillborn SN - 0-582-78600-2 PB - Longman Group Ltd KW - Fiction N2 - This novel takes one to the heart of an African village, into huts and down to streams to collect water and firewood, as we follow Li’s choices in life. One cannot ignore the harsh patriarchal rules imposed on women in this society. Women are meant to stay home and wait for proposals, or for their husbands to come home. Women wait, while men go out in search of their destinies ER -