It’s a factual text with a tinge of fictional flair, a penetrable literature punctuated with humor and sarcasm, an inspiring work designed to encourage and lift the spirit of those who feel dejected, an outpouring of genuine sentiments truly deserving of attention, a dependable companion for the family, the student, the youth, and especially the woman and the man, and an inspiration to the efforts of international organizations and nongovernmental organizations [NGOs].
AdaOkere Agbasimalo was born in Nigeria and was a teenager during the Civil War. After survival the civil war, she went on to earn a degree in French and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Nigeria Nsukka.
AdaOkere Agbasimalo has worked as a programme officer for the Johns Hopkins University Centre for Communications under the sponsorship of USAID, and the Society for Family Health as Gender Mainstreaming Specialist and senior advocacy and documentation manager. She is also the author of Bow You Must and Waves of Destiny.
The Forest Dames is a factional retelling of AdaOkere Agbasimalo’s experiences in the civil war.