{"product_id":"khadama-sena-akagbor-9798243035767","title":"Khadama: A Story of Survival and Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe tea was still hot when it hit Sumaiya's skin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThirty-six hours into her new job, she understood: the villa wasn't opportunity. It was a trap.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe'd left Kampala with a hospitality degree and desperate hope-Hassan's university fees, Ibrahim's surgery, Yusuf's wedding depended on the salary her Emirati employers promised. She thought being Muslim would create solidarity. That education was armor. That her carefully pinned hijab would earn respect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe was wrong about everything.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Madam Fatima's jealousy manifests as scalding punishment, when her passport disappears, when leaving becomes criminal and staying becomes survival, Sumaiya discovers what domestic workers across Gulf states already know: the kafala system doesn't protect you-it erases you by law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in cramped apartments where every doorbell triggers terror, in networks built from whispered solidarity, women resist. They document. They hide each other. They refuse to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome make it home. Some don't. All pay a price the world refuses to calculate.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKhadama\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of those who maintain luxury they'll never touch, whose silence is required and whose resistance rewrites the rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel that refuses to look away.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sena Akagbor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798243035767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d","brand":"Sena Akagbor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171538510079,"sku":"9798243035767","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/khadama-sena-akagbor-9798243035767","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}