Maya Jama: What made my dad a ‘bad’ man?
When she was a child, her father was always in prison. At 12, she stopped seeing him, but, 10 years on, she hoped to meet him and discover why he behaved as he didIn Maya Jama’s earliest memory, the police are knocking on the door, and then they are asking her: “Where’s your dad?” Maya knew exactly where he was: under the bed. “I told them, and they pulled him out and took him away. And I felt guilty, because I’d given away his hiding place.”That was two
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