"I bet yourmouths are watering as much as mine right now, " she said, adding that her life goals included "someday seeing the first woman president" and eliminating cliques at school.
The boys had clearly made a deal that went like this: We'll "release" you as sponsors, you'll keep yourmouths shut, and when all this woman stuff blows over you can quietly come back.
When we talked of this later, he told me that there is an Africa out there in which the price you pay for being an honest citizen is that you cannot afford to put bread into the mouths of your own children.