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African women like being beaten. When Jende wacks Nemi, she asks to him to beat her again. She likes it. She's into it. Maybe it's a Cameroon thing, heh heh.

 

African women are worth their weight in goats and rice. In Africa, women are bought and sold. You know you have a desirable daughter if suitors will pay you a bunch of good milking goats for her.

 

The best way to learn how to beat your wife is to learn from your dad. Jende teaches his son Liomi how to beat women by beating up Nemi in front of him.

 

Lying about affairs makes wives happy. Cindy is never happier when Jende deceives her into thinking that her husband Edwards is faithful to her. She smiles and laughs happily. Women like it when their husbands have affairs and they don't know about it.

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Being a chauffeur is very boring. Being a chauffeur is very boring. Nothing ever happens. That is the most powerful theme of this book.

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