Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe’s heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.<\/b><\/p>\n
‘A wondrous discovery.’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/b>
‘A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.’ Tsitsi Dangarembga<\/b>
‘Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the written word.’ Alice Walker<\/b>
‘Modest, lyrical, reflective and intelligent .. Deserves as wide an audience as it can get.’ Angela Carter<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Ver do you come from?’ she asked Sissie. ‘Ghana.’ ‘Is that near Canada?’<\/i><\/p>\n
Sissie is leaving Ghana for the first time. Arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education, she plunges into this new continent’s heart of whiteness, observing the strange customs of the natives.<\/p>\n
Drinking cocktails at the German Embassy, she cringes at her countrymen.
In a Bavarian castle, she is seduced by the lonely mother of Little Adolf.
In freezing London, she witnesses ‘been-tos’ sharing myths of an overseas idyll.
In between continents, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover.
But it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home.<\/p>\n
Ama Ata Aidoo’s landmark debut Our Sister Killjoy <\/i>exploded into the world in 1977. With its blistering feminist satire of the West African diaspora, colonial legacies and toxic racism, expressed in a radical literary form – prose poetry, letter, manifesto – its provocative impact remains unmatched half a century on.<\/p>\n
Introduced by Ayesha Harruna Attah<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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