On the surface, we are talking about the very real problem of Western gatekeepers deciding which Africans to publish and promote, and how to authentically express African life in letters–but beneath the dialogue is an older and unresolved debate about control and privilege.
Five years after publishing Powder Necklace, a novel that highlights the life of a young Ghanaian girl who was sent to Ghana by her mother to attend a rural school as a move to protect her from bad influences in London, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is still being discussed and making waves with her recent participation in TedxAccra, the African Film Festival, the Rhode Island Writers Colony and other . Her persistence and hard work towards achieving her goals compelled us to spotlight her as our Obaasema for the week. Nana, we say ayekoo!
Stay empowered by the quote above extracted from her Facebook page here: