Description
Set on the Gold Coast in the 1870s, this acclaimed play follows Anowa as she challenges the expectations placed on her by family and community—choosing her own path in love, even as tradition insists she submit. When her marriage to Kofi Ako turns sour, the story becomes a searching examination of power and responsibility between husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and the individual and the society that shapes them. Through a distinctive chorus of an Old Man and an Old Woman, the play interrogates inherited folk-tale patterns and asks what happens when “obedience” is no longer the measure of a woman’s worth. With Ama Ata Aidoo’s sharp, modern dramatic voice, the work explores themes of gender, autonomy, cultural change, and the cost of insisting that the future must look like the past.
Available Editions
paperback
Pearson Education
Published Jan 1, 2003
96 pages
ISBN: 9780582818958
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Details
First Published
1970
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo.