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What is wrong with ezinma the daughter of ekwefi and Okonkwo?

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What is wrong with ezinma the daughter of ekwefi and Okonkwo?
Ezinma had been ill throughout her life because she was believed to be an ogbanje, a child who dies then returns to its mother’s womb to be return then die again. This is, of course, superstition, but the true nature of her illness is never revealed.