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The story begins with a feint; the narrator, Bertha, lures us into expectation of some historical recount. From there on, she puts up a trap which try as you may, you simply cannot get away from. First, she introduces us to Sara, a girl who was given to the Sultan, Njoya, for a wife at the tender age of nine, ironically as a demonstration of friendship between Njoya and paramount chief Charles Atananga. In Chapter two, three and four, we learn that we are seeing little Sara’s story through old Sara’s eyes; the narrator is a historian travelled…