Queen Pokou

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?

Set in

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  Ivory Coast · Côte d’Ivoire

  Destination of the Baoulé migration; setting of the Baoulé kingdom
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• Ghana · Ghana

  Origin of Queen Pokou and the Ashanti Empire