A woman in her Prime
A woman in her Prime is a novel published in the year 1967 by Ghanian Journalist, Publisher, and Novelist Asare Konadu. The novel centers around Aduwa Pokuwa, a true revelation that child bearing is very important for female, as a woman found to be barren as desert cannot be reckoned with in the society.
Quotes
[edit]- if she failed to make this sacrifices and lost her chance of child-bearing, her fate as a barren would be made certain. Then her old age would be doomed in lonelines
- Page 13
- sat thinking of how he had prayed and his feet brushed the dew. He had called on great Tano to make it possible for Pokuwa to bear a child.
- Page 21
- A man shouldn’t sleep like this. You must sleep less heavily, if you are going to be of any help in an emergency.
- Page 101
- I am a woman. And a woman does want a child; that is her nature
- Page 108
- Does anybody know what exist in the ghost world? At Asamando?
- Page 57
- your child is having miscarriage because you never sent sacrifices in thanksgiving to the fetish…you remember Anowuo?
- Page 30
- Perhaps, that is a sign of a greater confidence. Let’s hope that a child will come this time
- Page 18
- And I am sure that wherever Kofi Daafo may be, he will always remember those days. if you had divorced Kofi Dede, you would perhaps be as I am today.
- Page 27
- Well, why don’t you buy yourself a slave or two? A hundred cowries were enough to buy one, weren’t they?
- Page 54
- And what would I do with a slave? Those who have them are constantly having to deal with stubbornness and rebellion, are they not?
- Page 55
- Yes, poor man. He died and went his way. He was very attractive to me, wasn’t he, Koramoa?
- Page 23
- What sort of child will a man who sleeps so much have with me?
- Page 102
- Who wouldn’t feel lively on such a beautiful night?
- Page 32
- Oh, Pokuwaa, I saw him only last Sunday. Listen
- Page 62