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Kenneth Dada/The Doctor
“Doctor mama” is Kenneth Dada’s mother and Ms. Tia’s mother-in-law. Adunni refers to her as simply “doctor mama.” Doctor mama repeatedly shows up at the Dada house to pester Ms. Tia about having a baby, even before Ms. Tia and her husband decide that they want to have children. Doctor mama arranges for Ms. Tia to take a ritual bath administered by a prophet to help with fertility. The “bath,” which doctor mama and Adunni attend along with Ms. Tia, turns out to be incredibly violent, as it involves Ms. Tia being flogged with broomsticks. The ritual’s brutality horrifies doctor mama, and she apologizes to Ms. Tia afterward, explaining that she didn’t know all that the bath entailed and only suggested it because she wanted Ms. Tia to become pregnant.
Doctor Mama Quotes in The Girl with the Louding Voice
The The Girl with the Louding Voice quotes below are all either spoken by Doctor Mama or refer to Doctor Mama. 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 35
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“She comes to ask if I am pregnant,” she say. “Can you imagine that? She has come every month in the last six months to say: ‘Where are my grandchildren? When will I carry my grandchildren and dance with them?’ Like I’ve hidden them in an attic somewhere. If she wants to dance, she should go to a bloody nightclub.”
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Chapter 47
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But there are words in my head, many things I want to say. I want to tell Ms. Tia I am sorry I made her come here. I want to ask why the doctor didn’t come too. Why didn’t he come and get a beating like his wife? If it takes two people to make a baby, why only one person, the woman, is suffering when the baby is not coming? Is it because she is the one with breast and the stomach for being pregnant? Or because of what? I want to ask, to scream, why are the women in Nigeria seem to be suffering for everything more than the men?
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Doctor Mama Quotes in The Girl with the Louding Voice
The The Girl with the Louding Voice quotes below are all either spoken by Doctor Mama or refer to Doctor Mama. 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 35
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“She comes to ask if I am pregnant,” she say. “Can you imagine that? She has come every month in the last six months to say: ‘Where are my grandchildren? When will I carry my grandchildren and dance with them?’ Like I’ve hidden them in an attic somewhere. If she wants to dance, she should go to a bloody nightclub.”
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Chapter 47
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But there are words in my head, many things I want to say. I want to tell Ms. Tia I am sorry I made her come here. I want to ask why the doctor didn’t come too. Why didn’t he come and get a beating like his wife? If it takes two people to make a baby, why only one person, the woman, is suffering when the baby is not coming? Is it because she is the one with breast and the stomach for being pregnant? Or because of what? I want to ask, to scream, why are the women in Nigeria seem to be suffering for everything more than the men?
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