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Pa Ikola Jonga
Papa Jonga’s wife, Jende’s mother, Neni’s mother-in-law, and Liomi and Timba’s grandmother. She is “a staunch card-carrying parishioner” of the Mizpah Baptist Church and a member of its Kakane women’s group. Even after Pa Jonga’s death in May 2009, she continues to work as a pig breeder, while also farming and selling goods in the market.
Ma Jonga Quotes in Behold the Dreamers
The Behold the Dreamers quotes below are all either spoken by Ma Jonga or refer to Ma Jonga . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 52
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When he had told her of his plan to return home, she had wondered why he was coming back when others were running out of Limbe, when many in his age group were fleeing to Bahrain and Qatar, or trekking and taking a succession of crowded buses to get from Cameroon to Libya so they could cross to Italy on leaky boats and arrive there with dreams of a happier life if the Mediterranean didn’t swallow them alive.
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Ma Jonga Quotes in Behold the Dreamers
The Behold the Dreamers quotes below are all either spoken by Ma Jonga or refer to Ma Jonga . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 52
Quotes
When he had told her of his plan to return home, she had wondered why he was coming back when others were running out of Limbe, when many in his age group were fleeing to Bahrain and Qatar, or trekking and taking a succession of crowded buses to get from Cameroon to Libya so they could cross to Italy on leaky boats and arrive there with dreams of a happier life if the Mediterranean didn’t swallow them alive.
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