What can a new bride do when her rightful place as a wife is occupied by another woman? In her debut novel, His Only Wife, Ghanaian author Peace Adzo Medie crafts a page-turning tale of intrigues and deception in a modern-day marriage.
Afi Tekple is the only daughter of a widowed woman in the small town of Ho in Eastern Ghana. We meet her on her wedding day where she is to be married "in absentia" by a man that she barely knows. Her husband, Elikem Ganyo, is the wealthy son of their benefactor, Aunty Faustina Ganyo. When Afi’s father died 10 years ago, she and her mother were left homeless and their valuables ransacked by supposed debt collectors. It was Aunty offered them a house and employed Afi’s mother.
