The Other Side of Truth

While Sade and Femi are in the vandalized video shop, Sade remembers when the police came to their compound in Nigeria. Folarin asked them for a warrant, and Sade was upset. Two police officers come to the video store, and the employee cannot give them any proof that Sade and Femi were part of the crime. Sade remembers police officers pushing her father into a truck. The London police officer takes Sade and Femi to the station.

Sade remembers her parents looking at photographs of people the police killed outside the library at the university. They were protesting for free elections and a free press. Some newspapers have been shut down, and some are too afraid to publish what is happening. This memory took place two days before the officers took Papa away.

The children meet a social worker named Robert. He finds a woman named Mrs. Graham who is willing to take them in as a temporary foster mother. Mrs. Graham’s building looks dirty from the outside, but the inside of her flat is clean. Femi sleeps in the same room as a boy named Kevin, and Sade sleeps in a room with two other children.