Rather than being harsh with him, she enlists him and the other children to search for her hen. The hen has escaped! She asks some children if they have seen it, and when one child admits to having thrown a stick at a stray black hen she sees that he is a fetish child - the product of prayers and sacrifice like the child she wants for herself. She finds only a post in the ground and a broken string. She washes herself, rubs her skin with shea cream, and purifies herself with white clay powder, then looks for the black hen she means to sacrifice. It is the appointed day for sacrifice to the god Tano, but Pokuwaa is running late. A Woman in her Prime was probably first published in 1967.It was the 40th novel in the African Writers Series, and his other novel Ordained by the Oracle was the 55thĢ.The novel of 107 pages was set in the 60’s and the story is about a middle-aged woman, Pokuwaa who has been unable to bear a child.ģ.The opening chapter skillfully draws drama from a simple situation. Samuel Asare Konadu (1932-1994), a Ghanian publisher and novelist who wrote many novels. “A WOMAN IN HER PRIME” BY ASARE KONADU” (WAEC/NECO LIT EXAMS)ġ.
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