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Onaedo: The Blacksmith's Daughter

by Ngozi Achebe · 2010

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An introduction to an African world that will haunt and surprise and an exquisite story told from a point of view that is rarely heard. This is a tale of two women separated by four hundred years but linked by history. Maxine a modern American woman who is half white and half African comes across a set of diaries written by a slave in the 16th century in her quest to connect with her Nigerian father. Then there is Onaedo a young woman from that era who found herself in the middle of events that were set in motion in a country far away from her small town in Igboland in West Africa. This is a coming of age novel set in a terrifying age - the age of Portuguese discovery.

Genre
historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
womenwomenMore like thisLess of thisAfrican AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
Setting
16th century16th centuryMore like thisLess of thisPortugalPortugalMore like thisLess of thisWest AfricaWest AfricaMore like thisLess of this
Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 370 pages

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