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Paperback editions:
- Trade Paperback
- Dec-2009
- Ayebia Clarke Publishing
- ISBN: 0955507995
- ISBN13: 9780955507991
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Description
Tadjo uses her powerful and fertile imagination to rekindle an ancient Akan myth and deliberately sets it ablaze. Woven into the historic frame of the founding of the Baoule people by Queen Abraha Pokou in 18th Century Cote d'Ivoire. Tadjo explores not only the most intimate of relationships â€" that between mother and child, but also the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Ultimately, Tadjo invites us to reflect on the bloody ethnic wars that engulfed West Africa at the end of the 20th century.
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