** **Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a βlouding voiceββthe ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man wh
Girl with the Golden Voice
β Scribed by Hancock, Carl
- Book ID
- 107675730
- Publisher
- Sid Harta Publishers
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 788 KB
- Series
- African 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781921829307
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β¦ Synopsis
In the early years of the twentieth century, the rich English aristocrat, Lord Delamere, led a group of well-off pioneers out of the northern deserts into the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. He immediately fell in love with its spectacular grandeur and its fertile lands. He saw opportunities for big profits for the European bwanas. It did not take long for him to discover, too, the fierce passions of the tribal loyalties that divided its people. A hundred years on, European Kenyans run their prosperous flower farms on the shores of the freshwater jewel of Lake Naivasha in the heart of the Great Rift. The McCalls of Londiani are well-loved employers of a workforce of hundreds of local people whose skills produce top quality roses and carnations for export for the Dutch flower market. In this tranquil, idyllic place, two young people fall deeply in love. Tom, eldest son of the third generation of McCalls, and the talented and beautiful Rebecca Kamau, laundry girl at Big House, enjoy... Ο‘μ―¦λ
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