The novel describes the circumstances of Kweku's death, the manner his family received the news and their journey back to Ghana for the funeral, but its many fragments plunge the reader into the past experiences of the Sais as immigrants in the US and as emigrants when they returned home to Africa.Įxile is not regarded as daunting, but associated with immigrants' personal growth from birth and childhood, through adolescence to adulthood and eventually death. "Miles and oceans and time zones away"' (6) in the US, his grown children, Olu, Taiwo, Kehinde and Sadie, along with his first wife Fola, hear about this sad news and decide to travel back to Ghana for the funeral they eventually meet and sympathize with Kweku's second wife, Ama. In an unconventional and fragmented manner, it opens with the report of the death of Kweku Sai, a Ghanaian immigrant who preferred to return to his homeland in later life after a successful career as a doctor in the United States. Ghana Must Go (2013) is written by Taiye Selasi, a Ghanaian-Nigerian author who was born in England, raised and educated in the United States and lives in Italy Her multicultural heritage provides context for the novel, but her West-African cultural background is dominant, so much so that the narrative recounts the experiences of a Ghanaian-Nigerian immigrant family whose lives are divided between the United States, Ghana, Nigeria and only relatively England.
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