Description Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom in precolonial Ghana, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates.
She lives in Senegal..
Attah is an Instituto Sacatar Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for nonfiction.
Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Asymptote Magazine, and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers\' Anthology.
About the Author Ayesha Harruna Attah grew up in Accra, Ghana and was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and New York University.
Through the experiences of Aminah and Wurche, The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people.
These two women\'s lives converge as infighting among Wurche\'s people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century.
Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father\'s court.
Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that transforms her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman.
Description Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom in precolonial Ghana, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates
