Mother and Child Must Die

In the middle of Bloumpei, two gun shots set the town in disarray; elders, young men, women, and children ran helter-skelter in a “feet help the body” fashion. A man, Zarwee, a talented wrestler, hardworking farmer, and prolific hunter in Grand Gedeh County’s northern belt of the Dhoe Kingdom blew up the head of his two-year-old son and smashed the chest of his wife. At the fall of the nineteenth century, Zarwee, bereft of everything—love and wife—and despondent and depressed, did the unthi...