The Magic Doll

One day while her mother is cooking, a young girl sees her mother's favorite dolly and is reminded of how the doll--an Akua-Ba fertility doll--helped her mother remain positive in her pregnancy journey and eventually conceive. After years of trying to have a baby, the mother seeks the help of a fertility statue called Akua'ba. Per tradition, she carries Dolly around as though it is a real child, loving it like she would a human baby, always asking Dolly to grant her wish. One beautiful day she gets her wish, bringing us our narrator Adjoa who reveals at the end of the book that her mother is pregnant with her second child.