Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa

The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa is a novel by a Ghanian writer Ama Ata Aidoo. It concerns a Ghanian student returning from education abroad with his Black American wife, and her struggle coming to terms with her cultural past in her new African home.

Quotes

• Any mother would be concerned if herdaughter refused to get married six years afterher puberty. If I do not worry about this, what shall I worry about?
  • Page 10

• How would I know what he is like. Doeshe not come from Nsona House? And is not thatone of the best Houses that are here in Yebi? Hashe an ancestor who has unclothed himself tonakedness, had the unmentionable, killed himselfor another man?
  • Page 15-16

• Child bearing is always profitable. For were not our fathers wise. Who looked upon the motion of our livesAnd said,They ask for the people of the houseAnd not the money in it? There is nothing that can compare with being a parent, my sister.
  • Page 16
• But in the end, they are not people. They become too much like the Gods they interpret”

• (Page 6)
• A prophet with a locked mouth is neither a prophet nor a man”

• (Page 8)
• “I am going to help him do something with his life”

• (Page 12)

• Barren!If it is real barrenness. Then, oh stranger-girl, Whom I do not know,I weep for you. For I know what it is to start a marriage with barrenness
  • Page 36

• My wife, do remember I am a man, theson of a woman who also has five sisters. It is along time since I gave up trying to understand thehuman female. Besides, if you think well of it, Iam not the one to decide finally whom Anowa canmarry. Her uncle, your brother is there, is he not?You‘d better consult him. Because I know yourfamily: they will say I deliberately married Anowato a fool to spite them
  • Page 16

• heirlooms, kentes and gold ornaments, which none ofus younger generation had ever seen before were all pawned
  • Page 31

• Old One, it is all right. We won‘t do thisagain
  • (Page 8)

• Could we not have waited until thisevening or dawn tomorrow?
  • (Page 16)

• My grandchild, so you havemarried?. Why did you never write to tell us?
  • (Page 11)
• But in the end, they are not people. They become too much like the Gods they interpret”

• (Page 6)

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