West Africa
Ghana
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Esi, a successful Ghanaian professional, leaves her first husband after he rapes her and enters a polygamous marriage believing it will grant more freedom, Aidoo's unsentimental exploration of love, work, and feminist possibility in contemporary Accra.
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Won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa 1992; Aidoo is Ghana's foremost feminist writer
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editorial-summarynot primary textEsi, a successful Ghanaian professional, leaves her first husband after he rapes her and enters a polygamous marriage believing it will grant more freedom, Aidoo's unsentimental exploration of love, work, and feminist possibility in contemporary Accra. Won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa 1992; Aidoo is Ghana's foremost feminist writer
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