''Faceless'' is a 2003 novel by Ghanain writer
Amma Darko
Amma Darko (born 1956) is a Ghanaian novelist. She had won The Golden Baobab Prize for one of her novels. She has published seven novels in total.
Life and writing
She was born in Koforidua, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. She studied in Kumasi, ...
. The novel highlights the abuse of the girl-child and women in Africa. The novel received critical reviews and has been read by people with inquisitive dispositions and others.
Plot summary
The novel is set in Sodom and Gommorah, a suburb ghetto town in
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
. It is mostly about Baby T, who is abused by his neighbour Onko.
Theme
The novel predominantly focuses on child abuse and received by both women and the girl-child in Africa.
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
In the Novel "Faceless", female characters bear the hardship from male characters that was mostly Absent Father's, murderers and rapists.
Take for instance a male character called "Kwei" MaaTsuru lover and the Father of her four children abandoned her because of superstitious belief that say she was cursed.
References
2003 novels
Ghana in fiction
Novels set in Ghana
Ghanaian novels
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