Born in a Second Language - Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie

Born in a Second Language

By Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie

  • Release Date: 2021-07-06
  • Genre: Poetry

Description

<b>Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time.</b>

In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence, of full expression and of defining who one becomes. Home exists on a spectrum: Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, one’s body, music, mother, mother tongue etc.

Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie’s book is an exploration of African and female identity, navigating what it means to be in-between identities, languages and homes and how those in-between spaces brush up against each other, and are in themselves, a home too.

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