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In Ikati, a small village in the heart of Nigeria, a woman's fate seems predetermined: she spends her childhood tending to the house and younger siblings, attends school only to learn to read and write, and is then given away in marriage. But fourteen-year-old Adunni is different: she loves to study, discover new words, understand the world, and imagine a different future. She dreams of becoming a teacher and showing girls how, through education, they can forge their own paths. A dream that seems to shatter the morning her father announces he has promised her to Morufu, a man much older than her with two other wives. Adunni knows her family needs the money, and yet she doesn't give up: not even after fulfilling her duty as a daughter, not even when tragedy strikes again. In a whisper, in a song, in a still-clumsy language, Adunni will speak… and her voice will be powerful.