Contents
List of Illustrations
Facts about Ivory Coast
Pronunciation and Spelling
List of Characters
Prologue
The South-North Road
Nawa: A Village Daughter
Chékun: Chosen for School
Lasungo: Champion Farmer
Paying Attention
Yaya: The Most Stubborn
The End of an Era
Ivoirité: Being Truly Ivorian
The Gendarmes on the Road
Yaya: A Northerner in the South
Chékun: So This Is How It Is
Santa Claus in Uniform
Calamitous: The Election of 2000
Powderkeg: 2002
Lasungo: Protection
Abou Joins the Rebels
Nawa and the Old Healer
Chékun in Abobo
Yaya: Your Nationality Is Questionable
North and South
Return to Divided Ivory Coast
Abou the Rebel: Demobilization
Nawa’s Terrible Secret
Election 2010: The First Round
The Second Round
The Women of Abobo
The War in Abidjan
Old Man
The Mad Baker in the Bunker
Abou the Ex-Rebel’s Last War
Just a Word in Our Mouths
Lasungo and the Yala-Yala Nurse
Yaya and the Scrap Iron Business
Abou the Ex-Rebel and the DDR
Nawa on Market Day
In One Ear and Out the Other
Lasungo: Ballpoint Pen Divination
Nawa: I Am Still Here Living My Life
Lasungo: Two Kinds of Spirits
Nawa: What He Is Saying Is True
Assiata and Masita Once More
Abou the Ex-Rebel in Peace
Yaya: My House Is an Intersection
Chékun: Back to the Kalikaha School
Asking for the Road
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Glossary