The Hundred Wells of Salaga

Name: The Hundred Wells of Salaga
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ayesha Harruna Attah
ISBN: 9781978649118

Author: Ayesha Harruna Attah

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/09/2019

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Cultural Fiction, Women

Synopsis

Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom in pre-colonial Ghana, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates. Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father's court. These two women's lives converge as infighting among Wurche's people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century.Through the experiences of Aminah and Wurche, The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people.

About Ayesha Harruna Attah

Ayesha Harruna Attah grew up in Accra, Ghana and was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and New York University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Asymptote Magazine, and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers' Anthology. Attah is an Instituto Sacatar Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for nonfiction. She lives in Senegal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darkowaa

!!! full review - [URL not allowed] 4.5 stars, but rounding up to 5 stars. Ayesha H. Attah has grown soooo much as a writer and 'The Hundred Wells of Salaga' is proof of her wonderful growth.... full review on book blog - [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by BookOfCinz

This is my second book by Ayesa Harran Attah and I am still amazed at her ability to write characters and plots that keeps your invested. My first introduction to the author was in reading The Deep Blue Between which is a follow up to this book. Yes, I read the sequel before the first book and gue......more

Goodreads review by Dawnie

i likes that this book showed the slave trades during the time when africa was being “colonized” (taken over!) by white europeans and how both changed the lives of africans. the author doesn’t shy away from the actual horrors -beatings, rape, even just the trauma being ripped away from your home and......more

Goodreads review by nastya

in post-colonial ghana, aminah and wurche live two very different lives. salaga has one hundred wells to wash the slaves that were taken from their homes and brought to the market. salaga was built on the internal slave trade. wurche, daughter of a chief, wants nothing more than to lead her father's......more