Based on old Ghandian leyend, Anowa is the story of a young woman who decides, against her parents wishes, to marry the man she loves. After many trials and teibulations the coupé amass a fortune-but Anowa that something, somewhere is wrong.
Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her ), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man--wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage--the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems. Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature."
Ato comes back to his african village, after his university studies in the United States. But he doesn't come alone: with him comes his afroamerica wife. How will his community recieve him?
Two dramas depict the stories of a man who returns to his native Ghana with his sophisticated American wife, and a young woman who marries the man she loves, against her parents' wishes