The Cursed Pawpaw

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🎬Calabar, 1899.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the slave trade had ended, but Calabar remained an entry point for the British empire. British goods poured inland; gin, cloth, and bicycles were symbols of a new kind of wealth that reshaped village life.

The land was changing, roads cut through old villages, churches and trading houses rose along the riverbanks, and new objects of prestige filtered into daily life. Among them was the bicycle, a simple machine that became a status symbol of modern comfort and hope in a world that was still rooted in old customs.

It was in this landscape that a 19 year old girl named Ekanem cam