Daughter in exile
Daughter in exile a novel by author Bisi Adjapon is a story about Lola, a young Ghanian woman struggling to make a life in the US and the challenges she must overcome.
Quotes
edit- You called me Fatou. Olga had just introduced us, yet you called me Fatou. Fatou is what the French colonists called their maids when they couldn’t be bothered to know their names. A name isn’t just a name. It’s my family, my dignity.
- You could say I entered America while living in Senegal, by way of my American friends, one evening, in a house near the sea, filled with the smell of salt, flowers, alcohol, perfume, tobacco, breath, and pheromones. Americans had crossed my path, but never this many in one space.