Changes
by Ama Ata Aidoo
A Ghanaian woman chooses herself. Everyone objects.
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you want African feminism on its own terms rather than through a Western lens
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Esi is a Ghanaian professional woman who divorces her husband because he doesn't respect her time and her work — and then becomes a second wife to a man she loves, which her friends find inexplicable. Aidoo uses this contradiction to explore what modern African womanhood actually looks like — caught between tradition and modernity, between individual desire and communal expectation, between African feminism and Western feminism's assumptions. The most quietly radical dispatch from inside a contemporary African woman's interior life.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Ghana • West Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Ghanaian author