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Khalifa

This character grows up in an East African village. His father teaches him to read and write and sends him to a tutor. His education allows him to work for bankers and then merchants.

Hamza

This character is given to a merchant by his father to pay his father’s debts. He runs away and joins the schutztruppe. After he is injured in the war and then recovers, he returns to the town he remembers. He becomes a carpenter and marries.

Afiya

This character is a young girl who works as a servant in her home village. When her brother finds her, he brings her to town to live with him.

Asha

This character’s father sold the house that was supposed to belong to her uncle. When she marries, she is allowed to stay at the house with her husband.

Uncle Ilyas

This character runs away from...

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