CHAPTER 40: NANA'S WORDS
“It is no more news that our people are dying by the numbers. I have called this meeting not to inform you of what you already know but to ask that we put our heads together and deliberate about the issues at hand.” Una said addressing the four head people who sat around a round table. There were five powerful houses in Xeran. The ones who controlled water; Ekete. The ones who controlled the Creepers: Agba, the ones who owned the farms; Okoh, the ones who controlled medicine; Likitah and the ones who controlled Okuta mining; Aneh. The meeting was held in the Ekete house; they were the biggest and most powerful of all the houses so it was only right that meetings of such nature be held in the house. The head of the house of Okoh said, “A lot of our farmers were affected by this plagu
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