Adah is a fierce mother, protective of her children and always advocating for their safety and selfhood and trying to instill pride in their Blackness. She wants a career, yes, but she is unequivocally devoted to her children. She has an instinctual understanding of what they need and want, though she often struggles to be the sort of mother she wants to be in this foreign land of London. Adah also sees motherhood through a feminist lens—as a choice women should be able to make, evinced in how she seeks contraceptives and abortion pills in order to control her reproductive abilities.