The White Queen of Okoyong: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and Faith

A shy, industrious child from a modest Aberdeen home discovers early that service and imagination offer a way beyond her cramped surroundings. She spends afternoons tending infants, teaching imagined classes of distant children, and listening intently to her mother’s stories of missionaries venturing into far‑off lands. Those tales spark a resolve that carries her from factory looms to a calling that promises adventure and purpose.

Crossing oceans, she arrives in the dense jungles of Calabar where the river is both lifeline and danger. On a sudden night a canoe is besieged by a massive hippopotamus, testing her courage and quick thinking. Amid the turmoil she begins to win the trust of local communities, offering practical help while quietly holding fast to the faith that first guided her childhood dreams.