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Born-boy (Alao)
Kola, who Adunni refers to as Mr. Kola, is Iya’s brother. He owns a car and cell phone, which Iya proudly regards as emblematic of his financial success. Adunni turns to Kola and Iya for help when she needs to escape her village to avoid being blamed for Khadija’s death. Kola finds Adunni a job working at Big Madam’s house in Lagos, and Adunni initially believes this his intentions are good, though it becomes clear that Kola has actually sold her into domestic servitude. Although Kola initially tells Adunni that he will collect her salary for her and place it in a bank account for safekeeping, she soon realizes that he is keeping this money for himself.
Kola Quotes in The Girl with the Louding Voice
The The Girl with the Louding Voice quotes below are all either spoken by Kola or refer to Kola. 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 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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Chapter 23
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When she come out, she draw deep breath and her chest, wide like blackboard, is climbing up and down, up and down. It is as if this woman is using her nostrils to be collecting all the heating from the outside and making us to be catching cold. I am standing beside Mr. Kola, and his body is shaking like my own. Even the trees in the compound, the yellow, pink, blue flowers in the long flowerpot, all of them too are shaking.
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Kola Quotes in The Girl with the Louding Voice
The The Girl with the Louding Voice quotes below are all either spoken by Kola or refer to Kola. 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 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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Chapter 23
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When she come out, she draw deep breath and her chest, wide like blackboard, is climbing up and down, up and down. It is as if this woman is using her nostrils to be collecting all the heating from the outside and making us to be catching cold. I am standing beside Mr. Kola, and his body is shaking like my own. Even the trees in the compound, the yellow, pink, blue flowers in the long flowerpot, all of them too are shaking.
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