Onaedo, the blacksmith's daughter
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ngozi Achebe
Publisher: Mandac-Goldberg Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Olympia, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780982647318; 9780982647301
Subjects: African American women; Fiction; Slave trade; History; Women; Colonies; Portuguese colonies
Description: A tale of two women separated by 400 years but linked by history. Maxine a modern American woman who is half white and half African comes across a set of diaries written by a slave in the 16th century in her quest to connect with her Nigerian father. Then there is Onaedo a young woman from that era who found herself in the middle of events that were set in motion in a country far away from her small town in Igboland in West Africa. This is a coming of age novel set in a terrifying age - the age of Portuguese discovery.