Sankofa

A Novel

Narrated by Sara Powell
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Pub Date 05 Oct 2021 | Archive Date 11 Oct 2021

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Description

The exhilarating story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew.

After years of being a daughter, a wife, and a mother, Anna finally has the time to wonder who she really is. But the only person who can tell her—her mother, the only parent who raised her—is dead.

Searching through her mother's belongings one day, Anna uncovers a few clues about her father, whom she never knew. Student diaries chronicle his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London, involvement that eventually led him to return to Africa, where he became the president—some would say dictator—of a small nation in West Africa. And he is still alive.

When Anna decides to track her father down, a journey begins that is disarmingly moving, funny, and fascinating. It raises universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for a family's hidden roots. Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudice, and personal and public inheritance, Sankofa is a story for anyone who has ever gone looking for a clear identity or home and found something more complex in its place.
The exhilarating story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew.

After years of being a daughter, a wife, and a mother, Anna finally has the time to wonder who...

Advance Praise

"Onuzo displays astonishing imagination and versatility in this fantastic novel about a woman’s search for her personal, familial and national identity, delivered with deadpan humor in captivating prose." —Sefi Atta

"The slick pacing and unpredictable developments—especially in the depiction of Anna’s enigmatic father—keep the reader alert right up to the novel’s exhilarating ending . . . Onuzo lifts the narrative into an entirely unexpected space. She shows that the healing of fractures and a desire for wholeness can be achieved in the most unexpected of places." —The Guardian

"An engaging, intelligent novel that disassembles the pieces of a woman's identity and puts them back together in a new pattern, shuffling the boundaries of the personal, political, and historical." —Aysegul Savas, author of Walking on the Ceiling

"Onuzo displays astonishing imagination and versatility in this fantastic novel about a woman’s search for her personal, familial and national identity, delivered with deadpan humor in captivating...


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EDITION Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN 9781666153408
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
DURATION 9 Hours, 2 Minutes

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