Yet Elikem does not attend the wedding as he is kept away by important business. With no university education, no skills or fortune to speak of, Afi accepts the arrangement to secure a future for herself and her mother. The arranged marriage is Aunty’s idea, a plot to force her eldest son to give up his girlfriend, a woman that she dislikes intensely. It was Aunty offered them a house and employed Afi’s mother.īut Aunty’s benevolence comes at price, that of unquestionable loyalty to her demands. When Afi’s father died 10 years ago, she and her mother were left homeless and their valuables ransacked by supposed debt collectors. Her husband, Elikem Ganyo, is the wealthy son of their benefactor, Aunty Faustina Ganyo. We meet her on her wedding day where she is to be married "in absentia" by a man that she barely knows. What can a new bride do when her rightful place as a wife is occupied by another woman? In her debut novel, His Only Wife, Ghanaian author Peace Adzo Medie crafts a page-turning tale of intrigues and deception in a modern-day marriage.Īfi Tekple is the only daughter of a widowed woman in the small town of Ho in Eastern Ghana.
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