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The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré

Start date: December 15, 2023

Finish date: January 15, 2024

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Jun 24, 2021 Linda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: cultural, 2021, ill-chcpl, fiction, bianca-s-group

This is the best book I've read all year!
Adduni is a fourteen-year-old girl in Kenya. She is smart and eager to learn. Her mother encourages her school learning. Unfortunately, momma dies before Adduni finishes her education. Adduni's papa exchanges "sells" her to Morufu as his third wife. That is just the beginning.
Adduni seems to be under the thumb of men, society, and people who take advantage of others, yet, she never loses her optimism or her eagerness to learn.
At first, I had to adjust to ...more

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Jul 20, 2020 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: africa, audio-books, read-2020, contemporary-fiction, african-literature

From BBC Radio 4:
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. She holds close to her the advice that her mother shared before she died: an education is the only way to get a “louding voice”— and the 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 who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir.

The author Abi Daré grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. She studied law at the University of ...more

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May 10, 2021 Kristy rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2021

I have to say, this book pulled me in to the story so quickly. I feel like sometimes I have to read a few chapters of a book before gaining interest but within the first few pages I was sucked in to Adunni’s world right away.

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