Some of the acronyms used in the book are HAK [Hugs and Kisses]; KOTL [Kiss On The Lips]; OMG [Oh My God] and KPC [Keep Parents Clueless]

The girl is considered to have lost her self-respect and presented herself like on easy girl and a play thing and is probably just another conquest to the guy she has sex with

Rebecca in the book is stereotypical because she has a wrong idea about Muslims that they are all killers

After a shipwreck, a slave who has been ill-treated by the slave masters while he is aboard the ship woke up on an island and found one of his torturers with him. The slave master was badly wounded and unconscious but instead at taking revenge by killing him or desrting him, he nursed the slave master back to health.

This statement is a lesson learnt from the story of the slave who nursed his torturer back to health. If someone hurts us, instead of taking revenge and making the cycle of wickedness never end, we should act nicely to such person and such a mean person will in turn became a better person, free from evil acts.

Body shaming means making negative comments about someone's weight or size. Aliya is a girl who is plump and big. This makes her teacher call her FATima and LatiFAT in order to humiliate her because of her body size and shape.

Body shaming is spelt without an 'e' like in shame

This quote explains that for a person to be respected, he must first respect himself. Though we can't control what people do or say at times, we can control how we feel and react to those actions.

The Efik people of calabar have a culture where girls are held in seclusion in 'fattening rooms' where they are fattened up in preparation for marriage.

Being self-confidence includes feeling comfortable in one's skin and being proud of one's body shape, colour, size and one's stature in lfe.