
Our Sister Killjoy
By Ama Ata Aidoo • FaberDescription
Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.
Sissie is leaving Africa for the first time, arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education.
In Germany, as guest of honour over embassy cocktails, she cringes at her countrymen.
In a Bavarian castle, she is seduced by a lonely local mother to Little Adolf.
In freezing London, she witnesses 'been-tos' sharing myths of an overseas idyll.
In between continents, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover.
But it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home.
Ama Ata Aidoo's landmark debut Our Sister Killjoy exploded into the world in 1977. With its blistering feminist satire of the African diaspora, colonial legacies and toxic racism, expressed in a radical literary form - prose poetry, letter, manifesto - its provocative impact remains unmatched.
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