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Aminah vive in un villaggio sulla pista delle carovane, le piace cucinare e creare cose con le mani; sogna di cucire scarpe come suo padre e viaggiare per venderle. Il viaggio che l'aspetta è ben diverso, ma rivela il suo coraggio e la sua capacità di resistenza. Wurche è la figlia di un re, una guerriera; sogna di governare insieme al padre e ai fratelli, per risolvere i conflitti interni e contrastare la rapacità degli europei. Non immagina che le chiedano invece di sposarsi, per cementare un'alleanza. La guerra incombe, e nei villaggi imperversano i mercanti di schiavi, che portano il loro bottino a Salaga, la splendida città dai cento pozzi. Uno di loro è Moro, cavaliere bellissimo e sensibile, eppure implicato in quel traffico osceno. Wurche e Aminah si incontrano grazie a lui: sono una principessa e una schiava, ma entrambe devono conquistarsi la libertà.
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- Pagine: 300
- Data di uscita: 13-02-2019
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!!! full review - https://africanbookaddict.com/2018/09... 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 - https://africanbookaddict.com/2018/09...
TW: abuse, violence, rape, slavery, suicide, racism, slut-shaming Unpopular Opinion Time 🐸☕️ Actual rating: 1.5 ⭐️ Boy oh boy. Grab some sugar because this Rather Random Review™️ is gonna be salty AF and you'll have to balance all this out with some sweetness. For as much as I appreciated the discussio Leggi tutto
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
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 Leggi tutto
The Hundred Wells of Salaga is the story of Arminah and Wurche, two young women who grow up in vastly different circumstances in West Africa in the late 19th century and whose paths cross. The novel, which tackles topics such as slavery and politics in a way which is rarely covered, is beautifully w Leggi tutto
I appreciated Attah’s novel for its period details on the lives of the Gonja and Hausa tribes: descriptions of maasa and tuo, design of household spaces, influence of Islam, and inter-tribal politics. This is not a culture / time / place you get many chances to read about! But then... the majority o Leggi tutto
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 Leggi tutto
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