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Roisin Ingle

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455 total appearances

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The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

For me, because I do love the way, and you said about it earlier, that it's not just romantic love.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

There's all sorts of love in this and there's motherly love.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

was a very strong story for me and it's from Nigeria.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

Tell me about that mother that you met and the extraordinary way that she expressed that protective love of a mother in a really difficult situation.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

And she's only, what, 12, 13?

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

They would take people that age and go off and marry them off to people.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

So first of all, let's go back to the dugout.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

She dug this sort of hole in the ground and that's where she put her daughter.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

And cover it with a tent above so that if you looked at it, you wouldn't see that there was anything there.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

And that's how she literally hid her daughter away with some provisions and food underneath.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

I mean, the extent she went to to make sure these people didn't find her.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

But then she also pretended to be mad, which would mean culturally these people, the Boko Haram, wouldn't want to touch her because she might kind of corrupt them or taint them.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

And she covered herself with feces, with urine so that she would be so repellent.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

And you also mentioned that they are kind of quite extraordinary stories because they still have their children as a result, even though Zainaboo's husband was killed.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

But then you see all these other women who just haven't been able to protect their children, obviously would have tried and done everything they can, but who are just still searching for them.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

This really painful thing where they're still looking for these children who are, you know, they'll probably never see again.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

It's heartbreaking to think of it.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

And you sort of know that they're probably never going to find them, but they're still trying.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

And in some of the places that you've been, there's kind of been a crackdown on love.

The Women's Podcast
Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime

Dating can be difficult, getting married.