Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Facts about Ivory Coast
  • Pronunciation and Spelling
  • List of Characters
  • Prologue
  • The South-North Road
  • Nawa: A Village Daughter
  • Chékun: Chosen for School
  • Lasungo: Champion Farmer
  • Paying Attention
  • Yaya: The Most Stubborn
  • The End of an Era
  • Ivoirité: Being Truly Ivorian
  • The Gendarmes on the Road
  • Yaya: A Northerner in the South
  • Chékun: So This Is How It Is
  • Santa Claus in Uniform
  • Calamitous: The Election of 2000
  • Powderkeg: 2002
  • Lasungo: Protection
  • Abou Joins the Rebels
  • Nawa and the Old Healer
  • Chékun in Abobo
  • Yaya: Your Nationality Is Questionable
  • North and South
  • Return to Divided Ivory Coast
  • Abou the Rebel: Demobilization
  • Nawa's Terrible Secret
  • Election 2010: The First Round
  • The Second Round
  • The Women of Abobo
  • The War in Abidjan
  • Old Man
  • The Mad Baker in the Bunker
  • Abou the Ex-Rebel's Last War
  • Just a Word in Our Mouths
  • Lasungo and the Yala-Yala Nurse
  • Yaya and the Scrap Iron Business
  • Abou the Ex-Rebel and the DDR
  • Nawa on Market Day
  • In One Ear and Out the Other
  • Lasungo: Ballpoint Pen Divination
  • Nawa: I Am Still Here Living My Life
  • Lasungo: Two Kinds of Spirits
  • Nawa: What He Is Saying Is True
  • Assiata and Masita Once More
  • Abou the Ex-Rebel in Peace
  • Yaya: My House Is an Intersection
  • Chékun: Back to the Kalikaha School
  • Asking for the Road
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary