I have washed my feet out of it
Hilary Mantel: Growing up in Ghana, 21 October 2004
Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl
by John Chernoff.
Chicago, 480 pp., £16, January 2004,0 226 10352 8 Show More
by John Chernoff.
Chicago, 480 pp., £16, January 2004,
Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl
by John Chernoff.
Chicago, 425 pp., £16, November 2004,0 226 10355 2 Show More
by John Chernoff.
Chicago, 425 pp., £16, November 2004,
Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Fourth Estate, 307 pp., £12.99, March 2004,0 00 717611 2 Show More
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Fourth Estate, 307 pp., £12.99, March 2004,
“... If you have money, it’s not hard.’ And so she came to Accra, and the Paradise Hotel. When John Chernoff met Hawa in Ghana in 1971, she was a round-faced doll-woman who spoke ten languages. She entertained her bar and nightclub companions with stories of her life, punctuated with bursts of laughter. ... ”
