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Read Around the World: Ghana

  • Maplewood Memorial Library 51 Baker Street Maplewood, NJ, 07040 United States (map)
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Our October title is The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah

Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom in precolonial 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 transforms 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. REGISTER HERE.

Earlier Event: October 14
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Later Event: November 4
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