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Ayesha Harruna Attah

Biography

Ayesha Harruna Attah

Ayesha Harruna Attah grew up in Accra, Ghana and was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University and New York University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Asymptote Magazine and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers’ Anthology. Attah is an Instituto Sacatar Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for nonfiction. She lives in Senegal.

Ayesha Harruna Attah

Books by Ayesha Harruna Attah

by Ayesha Harruna Attah - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that transforms her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father's court. These two women's lives converge as infighting among Wurche's people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the 19th century.