Tag: The Hundred Wells of Salaga
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Ayesha Harruna Attah’s “The Hundred Wells of Salaga” now available in French.
Ayesha Harruna Attah’s novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga is now available in French as Les Cent Puits De Salaga. The Hundred Wells of Salaga is a novel by Ayesha Harruna Attah about two women whose lives intersect in the Salaga slave market in pre-colonial Ghana. Aminah is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and Wurche…
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Translations: Ayesha Harruna Attah, Koleka Putuma, Akwaeke Emezi.
Translations for work by Ayesha Harruna Attah, Koleka Putuma, and Akwaeke Emezi are either here or in the works. Translations are an important part of any publishing ecosystem to thrive. Here is some work that you can expect to see in translation either on your bookshelf or in the not too distant future. The Hundred…
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Accra International Book Festival Awards 2018 shortlist announced.
The Accra International Book Festival Awards 2018 shortlists were announced on December 27, 2018. The awards are the First Book Award and Independent Writers Award. The Accra International Book Festival Awards are open to writers of any nationality writing in English and French and whose work can reshape the world. The shortlist announced this year…
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Interview: Five questions with Ayesha Harruna Attah.
Ayesha Harruna Attah is the author of the new novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga published by Cassava Republic Press. This is the writer’s second novel. She agreed to answer five of our questions. Ghanaian writer Ayesha Harruna Attah is a writer of no mean repute with her first novel, Harmattan Rain, being shortlisted for…