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Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016.Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held ...
Abena Pokua Adompim Busia (born 1953) is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat. She is a daughter of the former prime minister of Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busia, and is the sister of actress Akosua Busia. Busia is an associate professor of Literature in English, and of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.
Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana [5] to Sophia, a nurse, and Kwaku Gyasi, a professor of French at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. [6] [7] Her family moved to the United States in 1991 so her father could complete his Ph.D. at Ohio State University.
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Homegoing is an African-American funeral tradition. Homegoing may also refer to: Homegoing (Gyasi novel), a 2016 novel by Yaa Gyasi; Homegoing, a 1989 novel by Frederik Pohl; Homegoings, a 2013 documentary film
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