Oyinkan Braithwaite

Thank you for having me, Jacob.

I'm excited.

Gosh, I'd like to start off by sort of talking about Farami, who's a beautiful, confident, dark-skinned young woman.

And she sees this man she likes come to her village and she seduces him.

Unfortunately, he's already married.

And his wife isn't too happy about this turn of events.

So she promptly curses Farami.

And the curse is that, you know, she will love in vain, that she will labor for the acknowledgement of men, but fall short of other women, that men will be like water in her palms.

And but this curse doesn't just apply to her.

It applies to her daughter, her daughter's daughter, her daughter's daughter, daughter on and on through the generations of the Faloduo.

family and as you said earlier it kind of focuses on the three youngest characters in this family Munifer who is dead at the start of the story we know how but not why Ebun who's working very hard to secure a different future for her daughter and Eni who everyone thinks is a reincarnation of Munifer

So the thing is, on the one hand, I would say, no, it's not a common belief in Nigeria.

At least it's not something that I've really heard discussed in any great detail.

But we have some names here.

that kind of indicate that the belief system might be there.

And what I mean by we have names is that, just like my name is Oyinko, someone else's name might be Yetunde or Babatunde.

Now, Yetunde means mother has come back, or Babatunde means father has come back.

They have come again.

So, you know, even that naming tradition suggests that at least maybe they used to be, or...

Well, it started with the reincarnation, but I was really struggling.