Queen Pokou
Subtitle: concerto for a sacrifice
By: by Véronique Tadjo ; translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid.
Contributors: Reid, Amy Baram, 1964-
Publisher: Ayebia; Distributed outside Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom and in the USA exclusively by Lynne Rienner Publishers; Ayebia Clarke Publishing; Lynne Rienner
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Banbury, UK; Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780955507991
Subjects: Pokou, -- Queen of the Baoulé, -- 1700-ca. 1760 -- Fiction; Baule (African people) -- Fiction; Queens -- Fiction; Mother and child -- Fiction; Slave trade -- Africa, West -- Fiction; Africa, West -- History -- Fiction; Africa, West -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Reine Pokou.
Description: This award-winning novel, woven into the framework of eighteenth century West Africa, recounts the story of Queen Abraha Pokou's sacrifice of her son to save the Baoule people. But it is also much more than that. Telling and retelling the story, changing key elements each time - what if the queen saved her son? what if she went crazy from grief? what if she ended up on a slave ship?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 69).