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Kayus is Adunni and Born-boy’s 11-year-old younger brother and Papa and Mama’s son. He is kind and loving, and he and Adunni are very close. Kayus and Adunni are very close and loyal to each other. So, when Kayus and Papa go to Iya’s home to find Adunni, who has run away in the aftermath of Khadija’s death, Kayus spots Adunni hiding in the bathroom but lies to Papa, claiming that Adunni is not there. This is the last time in the novel that the siblings see each other, though Adunni maintains a hope that she will be able to reunite with her family someday. Because Adunni is the daughter in the family, she’s the one forced to make large sacrifices to improve the family’s financial situation. Adunni feels no bitterness toward Kayus, however, as she recognizes that it is beyond his ability to control the norms that dictate their society. Kayus is one of the only people from Adunni’s village who is as upset about her forced marriage to Morufu as she is.
Kayus Quotes in The Girl with the Louding Voice
The The Girl with the Louding Voice quotes below are all either spoken by Kayus or refer to Kayus. 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 5
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Sometimes, I want to be just like Kayus, to have no fear of marrying a man, to not have any worry in this life. All Kayus ever worry about is what food to eat and where he can kick his football. He don’t ever worry about no marriage or bride-price money. He don’t even worry about schooling because I been the one teaching him school since all this time.
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Chapter 21
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I am leaving Ikati. This is what I been wanting all my life, to leave this place and see what the world outside is looking like, but not like this. Not with a bad name following me. Not like a person that the whole village is looking for because they think she have kill a woman. Not with one half of my heart with Kayus and the other half with Khadija. I hang my head down, feeling a thick, heavy cloth as it is covering me. The thick cloth of shame, of sorrow, of heart pain.
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Kayus Quotes in The Girl with the Louding Voice
The The Girl with the Louding Voice quotes below are all either spoken by Kayus or refer to Kayus. 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 5
Quotes
Sometimes, I want to be just like Kayus, to have no fear of marrying a man, to not have any worry in this life. All Kayus ever worry about is what food to eat and where he can kick his football. He don’t ever worry about no marriage or bride-price money. He don’t even worry about schooling because I been the one teaching him school since all this time.
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Chapter 21
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I am leaving Ikati. This is what I been wanting all my life, to leave this place and see what the world outside is looking like, but not like this. Not with a bad name following me. Not like a person that the whole village is looking for because they think she have kill a woman. Not with one half of my heart with Kayus and the other half with Khadija. I hang my head down, feeling a thick, heavy cloth as it is covering me. The thick cloth of shame, of sorrow, of heart pain.
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