Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree

One of the lead women at the new camp, Fanne, greets the girls with their first delicious meal in weeks and promises their lives will improve. Ya Ta knows that the first camp was worse but does not see this new life as much better, particularly because she is trapped with a man who wears a mask and barely speaks. On her first night, she sees him staring at her in their tent, and the words of her mother, principal, and pastor come into her mind, warning her against the way that men may want to use women. Ya Ta tries to flee but is stopped by Fanne, and then her husband captures her and rapes her. The next morning, Ya Ta approaches Sarah, who seems happy and flirts with her new husband. Fanne tells the girls to keep their husbands happy, and Ya Ta finds herself in a new type of enslavement. She knows little about her husband, except that he calls himself Osama, after his hero. Ya Ta does not understand the reference because she does not know who Osama bin Laden is.