The following conversation arose after we tired of retelling the morning's story of Isatou Pippi running to our compound with the failed hope of escaping a beating.
Kairaba: In America, if a man's wife is bad, won't the husband beat her?
Me: Some men.
Kairaba: He will beat his wife??
Me: Some men. Not many men. But if a man beats his wife, many people will be angry. They will say, "Heh! You beat your wife?!"
Kairaba: But if I have a wife from America or France, I will beat her.
Me: Heh! You will beat her?
Kairaba: I will beat her.
Me: But if you beat her, she will be angry.
Kairaba: Okay.
Me: She will go and she will say, "Now Kairaba is not my husband."
Kairaba: Okay.
Me: If she goes, you accept?
Kairaba: Yes. If she goes I will find another one.
Me: ...Okay...
Kairaba: I am just playing! If I have a Gambian or a Senegalese wife I will not beat her.
Me: It is good.
Kairaba: If you give them money, they will be happy. If you give them food, they will be happy. But if you beat them, they will not be happy.
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