![]() ![]() ![]() It turns out Aunty set up Afi with Eli because she doesn’t like Eli’s Liberian girlfriend Muna. Without her husband, whom she still has never met. Moving away from her small village of Ho to the big city of Accra, Afi lives in a luxury apartment. But Afi’s mother has received a lot of help from Aunty, and Aunty offering her favorite son Elikem “Eli” Ganyo to Afi to marry is the ultimate gift. Afi knows her mother never recovered from her father’s death, and now the head of their extended family is her stingy Uncle Pious. Going through with the marriage because of her shortcomings, Afi also wants to please her mother who wants to please Aunty Faustina Ganyo, a wealthy woman in the community who has her hands on everything―and likes it that way. ![]() The story opens with Afi, a twentysomething struggling seamstress and failed student living in Ghana, preparing for her wedding. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie dives into African family relations that can arrange an marriage yet destroy it at the same time. *Given an advanced reading copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review* ![]()
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