Love in the Time of Slavery: On Ayesha Harruna Attah’s “The Hundred Wells of Salaga”
“THE CAPTIVES TROOPED single file, and when Aminah looked back, the whole village was engulfed in flames. Above them, the sky was cool and blue and indifferent, the moon haloed by wisps of white cloud.” This mini-apocalypse, which takes place in a West African village in the late 19th century, is the work of slave […]
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