Nma Adukma was married to Nba Abunga, and they had two children: Akama and Adingoma. Akama was the firstborn, and she conceived him after many years without a child when many people started insulting her that she was a Kundogne, to wit, a barren woman. Some even whispered that she had sold her womb, whatever that meant. Some women brought their sisters and intentionally sent them to Abunga’s house, hoping that Abunga would be interested in a second wife. Abunga was a wealthy blacksmith who spent all his time in his Kuta zungo (blacksmith hut) pressing bellows to increase oxygen to make the fire hot for heating and forging metals. He made hoes, cutlasses, knives, arrowheads, and sickles. When Abunga showed no interest in the young women they sent to his house, the village gossipers started saying that he was not a man enough and that the burning hearth had weakened his manhood. Indeed, when Nma Adukma was pregnant, some people said that she had stuffed clothes to look like she was pregnant, despite the advice of ‘pregnant detectors’ who said that her pregnancy was genuine. These ‘pregnant detectors’ are not your average test kits. They were women who could detect that a girl was pregnant in less than ten days of conception, a feat that even the average modern HCG tests cannot detect.