"His Only Wife" By Peace Adzo Medie Read By Kuukuwa Manful (Ghana) by Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora published on 2021-04-15T10:43:50Z PEACE ADZO MEDIE is a Liberian-born Ghanaian academic and writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She is a senior lecturer in gender and international politics at the University of Bristol in England. Her debut novel, "His Only Wife," tells the story of Afi Tekple, a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her family to marry a man she does not know. Elikem Ganyo is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hope that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claim is inappropriate. Marrying a stranger seems a small price to pay in exchange for financial security for her family and the lifestyle she's always wanted in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, a place of wealth and sophistication. But when Afi arrives in the city, she realises her fairy-tale ending might not be all she had hoped for. Her days are spent with nothing to do but cook meals for a man who may or may not turn up to eat them. Can she really live this life without losing sight of herself? KUUKUWA MANFUL is a trained architect and researcher who creates, studies, and documents architecture in Africa. She runs the Accra Archive project which digitises endangered historical architectural material, and curates adansisɛm, an architecture collective that documents and disseminates (hi)stories of Ghanaian architecture. Her current research - towards a PhD at SOAS, University of London - examines the sociopolitics of West African nation-building and citizenship through a study of the architecture of schools. She holds Masters and BSc Architecture degrees from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and an MSc African Studies from The University of Oxford. Genre Storytelling