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Peace Adzo Medie

Autor de His Only Wife

2 Obras 491 Miembros 54 Reseñas 2 Preferidas

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Obras de Peace Adzo Medie

His Only Wife (2020) 437 copias
Nightbloom (2023) 54 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Género
female
Nacionalidad
Liberia
Lugar de nacimiento
Liberia
Lugares de residencia
Ghana
Liberia
England
Educación
University of Pittsburgh (PhD ∙ public and international affairs)
University of Ghana (BA|geography)
Ocupaciones
author
academic
Organizaciones
African Affairs
LECIAD
University of Bristol
University of Ghana
Agente
Kiele Raymond (Thompson Literary Agency)
Biografía breve
Peace Adzo Medie is a Ghanaian writer and senior lecturer in gender and international politics at the University of Bristol in England. Prior to that she was a research fellow at the University of Ghana. She has published several short stories, and her book Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. She is an award-winning scholar and has been awarded several fellowships. She holds a PhD in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in geography from the University of Ghana. She was born in Liberia.

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Akorfa and Selasi are cousins in Ghana. Though they are cousins, they become inseparable as sister's might be. The two are born on the same day, go to school together, but over time over time their relationship changes. Selasi becomes hostile and withdrawn, and Akorfa becomes embarrassed by her behaviour. When Selasi's mother dies during childbirth, she is abandoned by her father, and goes to live with her grandmother, and extended family. The two go their separate ways, Akorfa to the USA to university, while Selasi remains in Ghana, and makes her way through polytechnic school in Home Economics.

The story is told from both Akfora's point of view, and then from Selasi's. We discover that both have , unbeknownst to each other, suffered abuse in silence This is a touching story of race, class, parental abandonment, abuse and different cultures. I look forward to reading the author's first book, His Only Wife.
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vancouverdeb | 5 reseñas más. | Mar 11, 2024 |
Afi lives in the small town of Ho in Ghana. When her mother's boss, "Aunty," proposes to Afi on her son Eli's behalf, Afi's family is elated that good fortune has come their way, but Eli doesn't even attend the wedding, and Afi doesn't see him for weeks, although she is installed in a luxurious flat in Accra. Afi longs for her husband to come so they can begin their life together, but in the meantime, she attends fashion school and dreams of setting up her own boutique. Over a couple of years, she realizes some truths about Eli's family and his other woman, and although she loves him, she insists on a divorce when she accepts that she will never be his only wife.

Quotes

It wasn't easy being the key to other people's happiness, their victory, and their vindication. (4)

"Not everyone who smiles with you wishes you well." (32)

How in the world was I going to turn things around when I wasn't even being given the chance? (94)

If there was one thing I agreed with my mother on, it was that one could never be sure about a person's intentions, no matter how kind that person seemed. (107)

Everyone knows that a person is nothing without family.... (121)

This tendency of his not to allow me to be a woman, to be a wife, was troubling. (132)

"Why should I listen to you? Do you ever listen to me?" (220)

"When you dismiss my pain and suffering as unreasonable. When you refuse even for a minute to empathize with me. How would you feel if I cheated on you?" (267)

"Why can't you just admit that your brother was with a woman that none of you liked and so you tried to use me to get him to leave her....There's nothing wrong with her! She's a woman who you don't like because she does as she pleases and doesn't dance to your tune." (271)

"Afi, you are not weak....It takes strength to walk away from someone you love. You were brave to say that you didn't want to be miserable..." (276)
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JennyArch | 47 reseñas más. | Sep 18, 2023 |
“They had put me in this tower and given me money like a schoolgirl. What was I supposed to do?“ asks Afi, a seamstress from a small town in Ghana who must confront which career goals and personal desires she is willing to sacrifice in order to build a successful new marriage with her wealthy husband. Under pressure from both of their families, she experiences the both the benefits of financial security from her new relationship, as well as the reality that it will test her career ambitions and her expectations for a romantic relationship.
Full of humor and detailed descriptions of rural and urban life in Ghana, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this audiobook and did not want the story to end. I recommend for anyone interested in women’s stories set in Ghana and stories about choosing one’s own path, especially when facing pressure and expectations from family and society
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ashleyc057 | 47 reseñas más. | Jul 26, 2023 |
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Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie is the coming-of-age story of two Ghanaian girls in the last part of the twentieth century. Akorfa and Selasi are very different, and while they are inseparable as children, their lives diverge, and as the novel ends they are in very different places. In the first section, we hear Akorfa's story and see her explanation for the rift with Selasi. Then, in part 2, we get Selasi's point of view. They are both fully developed characters, and we see how their personalities develop over time. I like that there is not one version of the story; Medie allows her characters to tell their stories and the readers can draw their own conclusions.

Through these compelling stories, Medie explores contemporary Ghana and reveals the importance of family in Ghanaian society, a place with no other real safety net. Yet, there are downsides to family as well. Women are second class citizens, and there is little protection for the most vulnerable when the family breaks down. In the stories of Akorfa and Selasi, we see the precariousness of the lives of the girls.

This is a fascinating novel that looks at a variety of experiences in Ghana.
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BLBera | 5 reseñas más. | Jul 24, 2023 |

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