According to Dickson, it was not uncommon to see women ‘far gone in their pregnancy, toiling in the field’ or to see ‘naked infants … exposed to the weather, sprawling on a goatskin or in a wooden tray’. He grew used to hearing ‘drivers curse both them and their squalling brats, when they were suckling them’.

Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women,…, loc. 196