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      Queen Pokou

      by Veronique Tadjo
      Published
      Dec 2009
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      96
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      Tadjo uses her powerful and fertile imagination to rekindle an ancient Akan myth and deliberately sets it ablaze. Woven into the historic frame of the founding of the Baoule people by Queen Abraha Pokou in 18th Century Cote d'Ivoire. Tadjo explores not only the most intimate of relationships – that between mother and child, but also the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Ultimately, Tadjo invites us to reflect on the bloody ethnic wars that engulfed West Africa at the end of the 20th century.

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      General Fiction

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      First Edition Dec 2009 Ayebia Clarke Publishing ISBN 0955507995
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      Dec 2009 Ayebia Clarke Publishing ISBN B08DFJNHQK
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