Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021--San Antonio, TX
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a fascinating story. It covers several generations of the members of the royal families of two African tribes from the late 1700s to the present with an emphasis on certain descendants of two sisters. It deals with colonialism, slave trading, tribal wars, arranged marriage, skin coloration, beliefs, desires, etc., following the lines of descendants in both Ghana and America. There are often parallels that are easy to see between political situations and family life of the times throughout that long period and today here in America. I gave the book 4 stars out of 5.
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