The Girl with the Louding Voice

By Abi Daré

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020) is the debut novel of Nigerian writer Abi Daré. Adunni, a fourteen-year-old in a rural Nigerian village, dreams of going to school, but after her mother dies, her father marries her off as a third wife to an older man. Forced to flee, she ends up working as a maid for a wealthy family in Lagos. Told in Adunni's distinctive voice, which mixes English with Nigerian Pidgin, the novel follows her fight to be heard and to get an education.

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