On Black Sisters' Street
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Drawn together by the tragedy, the remaining three women — Joyce, a great beauty whose life has been devastated by war; Ama, whose dark moods hide a past injustice; and Efe, whose determination to earn her keep is motivated by a particular zeal — slowly begin to share their stories. They are stories of fear, displacement, love and most of all, they are stories of a sinister man called Dele.
Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one is white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility pruned with zeal. But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. Could long held ..
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when the civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they star crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. But when their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herse..
Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother in law wants, and she has tried everything - arduous pilgrimages, medical consultations, dances with prophets, appeals to God. But when her in laws insist on a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear. It will lead to jealousy, betrayal, despair. Unraveling against the social and political turbulence of 80s..
Angela's upbringing is horrendous but what adulthood holds for her is even more excruciating. She moves between achievements and difficulties but, when the metaphysical meets with a mother-in-law's ill-conceived determination to root out a woman from his son's home, the result is devastating. Fire in the Wind shuttles between three countries: Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire. In this moving..
