The Forest Inside: On Forest Imaginaries and the Domestic Interior | Salmah Oiza Salam | Essay

  I write women who keep things. Private names. Private vows. Private cosmologies. Things that the household cannot see. Basma Gidado enters a contractual marriage in Kaduna, 2002, a city still exhaling the smoke of its own violence. Her husband Faruk has made a vow never to love. She has made one in return — […]

The Forest Inside: On Forest Imaginaries and the Domestic Interior | Salmah Oiza Salam | Essay
  I write women who keep things. Private names. Private vows. Private cosmologies. Things that the household cannot see. Basma Gidado enters a contractual marriage in Kaduna, 2002, a city still exhaling the smoke of its own violence. Her husband Faruk has made a vow never to love. She has made one in return — […]