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    THE ART OF SURVIVAL

    Mar 26, 2020 3 minutes
    BY PEACE HYDE

    THERE WAS NO WAY NIKE DAVIES- Okundaye could look the other way. For after all, she too had been a victim in her early teens.

    Too many women were being pushed down the traditional path of marriage and childrearing in her country.

    Born in 1951 in Ogidi-Ijumu, a small village in western Nigeria known for its spectacular rock formations and traditional art industry, Davies-Okundaye resolved to fight this practice four decades ago.

    “By the age of 13, they wanted to

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