• Aftershocks

  • Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity
  • By: Nadia Owusu
  • Narrated by: Nadia Owusu
  • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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By: Nadia Owusu
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I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.

When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her baby sister and fled from Tanzania back to the US. When she was 13 her beloved Ghanaian father died of cancer. She and her sister were left alone, with a stepmother they didn't like, adrift.

Nadia Owusu is a woman of many languages, homelands and identities. She grew up in Rome, Dar-es-Salaam, Addis Ababa, Kumasi, Kampala and London. And for every new place there was a new language, a new identity and a new home. At times she has felt stateless, motherless and identity-less. At others, she has had multiple identities at war within her. It's no wonder she started to feel fault lines in her sense of self. It's no wonder that those fault lines eventually ruptured. 

Aftershocks is the account of how she hauled herself out of the wreckage. It is the intimate story behind the news of immigration and division dominating contemporary politics. Nadia Owusu's astonishingly moving and incredibly timely memoir is a nuanced portrait of globalisation from the inside in a fractured world in crisis.

©2021 Nadia Owusu (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

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  • 04-25-22

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It was interesting, different. I learnt, I was irritated and was done. layered emotion place me in the middle. Time will tell if I enjoyed.