In Mandinka it meant, You stay here. [ - - - ] Bell was indignant when she heard the name. Kizzy! Ain't nobody never heared of dat name! Ain't gon' no nothin' but stir up trouble. But Kunta explained its meaning, and she relented.

Maybe you know my grand-daughter, the one with the non-Somali name - Marilyn. You won't believe it, but she was named for me, and my own is Maryam. She tells me that Marilyn is the name of a famous actress who's now dead. You know the young these days, bringing mysteries and foreign ways into our lives.

A large, genial woman, she ruled the fort kitchen and its Indian helpers ironhandedly. Within her own domain, no one trifled with Charlotte Green.

Tora bit into a pepperette and tore the meat stick apart with a hard jerk of her hand.