by Ayesha Harruna Attah · Uitgeverij Orlando · tapa dura · ISBN 9789492086846
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«De honderd waterputten van Salaga» is the historical novel by Ayesha Harruna Attah, published by Uitgeverij Orlando in hardback (256 pages, in Dutch).
Aminah lives in a village until raiders burn down her house and kidnap her. Wurche belongs to a powerful family enriched by the slave trade and threatened by Asante, British and German troops. Their paths cross in Salaga, in precolonial Ghana, famous for its hundred wells where slaves were washed before being sold.
The English original was published in 2018; the Dutch translation is by Annelies de Hertogh.
A work for readers of historical fiction and African fiction interested in Ghana's past and female protagonists.
