African Chi

[Guest guest]

This is from a story in the recent New Yorker: This doesn't seem to be

translation... probably

written in English by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Anyway, interesting how the

language

pops up in an African story.

 

 

" From the moment she had first seen him, at a wrestling match, both of them

staring and

staring, both of them too young, her waist not yet wearing the menstruation

cloth, she had

believed with a quiet stubbornness that her chi and his chi had destined their

marriage, and

so when he and his relatives came to her father a few years later with pots of

palm wine she

told her mother that this was the man she would marry. "

 

 

New Yorker on line articles come and go quickly so if you want to read the whole

story, get

there quick.

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/06/23/080623fi_fiction_adichie