Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Facts about Ivory Coast -- Pronunciation and Spelling -- List of Characters -- Prologue -- The South-North Road -- Nawa: A Village Daughter -- Chékun: Chosen for School -- Lasungo: Champion Farmer -- Paying Attention -- Yaya: The Most Stubborn -- The End of an Era -- Ivoirité: Being Truly Ivorian -- The Gendarmes on the Road -- Yaya: A Northerner in the South -- Chékun: So This Is How It Is -- Santa Claus in Uniform -- Calamitous: The Election of 2000 -- Powderkeg: 2002 -- Lasungo: Protection -- Abou Joins the Rebels -- Nawa and the Old Healer
Chékun in Abobo -- Yaya: Your Nationality Is Questionable -- North and South -- Return to Divided Ivory Coast -- Abou the Rebel: Demobilization -- Nawa's Terrible Secret -- Election 2010: The First Round -- The Second Round -- The Women of Abobo -- The War in Abidjan -- Old Man -- The Mad Baker in the Bunker -- Abou the Ex-Rebel's Last War -- Just a Word in Our Mouths -- Lasungo and the Yala-Yala Nurse -- Yaya and the Scrap Iron Business -- Abou the Ex-Rebel and the DDR -- Nawa on Market Day -- In One Ear and Out the Other -- Lasungo: Ballpoint Pen Divination
Nawa: I Am Still Here Living My Life -- Lasungo: Two Kinds of Spirits -- Nawa: What He Is Saying Is True -- Assiata and Masita Once More -- Abou the Ex-Rebel in Peace -- Yaya: My House Is an Intersection -- Chékun: Back to the Kalikaha School -- Asking for the Road -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary
