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This award-winning novel, woven into the framework of eighteenth century West Africa, recounts the story of Queen Abraha Pokou's sacrifice of her son to save the Baoule people. But it is also much more than that. Telling and retelling the story, changing key elements each time - what if the queen saved her son? what if she went crazy from grief? what if she ended up on a slave ship?
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1 edition- Other · English · 2009Ayebia · 70 pages · 9780955507991
Baule (African people)Slave tradeQueensHistoryMother and childEthnic relationsFictionFiction, historical