His only wife
Medie, Peace A.
creator
author.
text
novel
Social problem fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
enk
London
Oneworld Publications
2021
2020
monographic
eng
278 pages ; 20 cm.
Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time in her uncle Pious's house with his many wives and children. Then one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity - a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo, a man she doesn't truly know. She acquiesces, but soon realizes that Elikem is not quite the catch he seemed. He sends a stand-in to his own wedding, and only weeks after Afi is married and installed in a plush apartment in the capital city of Accra does she meet her new husband. It turns out that he is in love with another woman, whom his family disapproves of; Afi is supposed to win him back on their behalf. But it is Accra that eventually wins Afi's heart and gives her a life of independence that she never could have imagined for herself.
adult
Peace Adzo Medie.
Originally published: North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
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Women dressmakers
Fiction
Arranged marriage
Ghana
Fiction
Ghana
Social life and customs
Fiction
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