Sickle Cell and the Spirit Child
Tsihugwa Kikuyu Tsihugwa Kikuyu

Sickle Cell and the Spirit Child

Sickle Cell and the Spirit Child

The child was considered an ogbanje - an evil “spirit-child” who is born to a family only to die in infancy, torturing the family cycle in rebirth and death. Even as an adolescent, the story moved me and I felt for Ekwefi and her serial loss of children.

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