Kwadwo’s first wife also resents her husband’s attention to Pokuwaa. She loses the child and a medicine man chides her for not making the proper sacrifice.Ħ.Pokuwaa’s mother, who had pressed her to leave her second husband, seems nearly as concerned about the lack of a child as Pokuwaa herself. (Oddly, there is little suggestion than the villagers think the fault is with her.) She becomes the second wife of a kind man named Kwadwo, and in less than a month she shows signs of being pregnant. Pokuwaa has divorced two husbands, apparently with little fuss, when they prove unable to give her children. This really portrays African culture where women endure deadly farming work.Pokuwaa demonstrates a habit of hard work and she is known as an industrious house wife who always goes to the nearest stream to fetch water to feed the family.ĥ.She experiences two different marriages with the unproductive problem. Konadu describes Pokuwaa as one of the industrious female farmers in Brenhoma.
We were informed that Pokuwaa could not sustain marriage in view of her childlessness.
They find the hen in the bushes, about to be swallowed by a snake, but Pokuwaa is just in time to pin down the snake, rescue the hen, and make her sacrifice.Ĥ.Pokuwaa is the leading character and her role has really given a vivid picture and beauty of the story. Rather than being harsh with him, she enlists him and the other children to search for her hen. The hen has escaped! She asks some children if they have seen it, and when one child admits to having thrown a stick at a stray black hen she sees that he is a fetish child - the product of prayers and sacrifice like the child she wants for herself. She finds only a post in the ground and a broken string. She washes herself, rubs her skin with shea cream, and purifies herself with white clay powder, then looks for the black hen she means to sacrifice. It is the appointed day for sacrifice to the god Tano, but Pokuwaa is running late.
A Woman in her Prime was probably first published in 1967.It was the 40th novel in the African Writers Series, and his other novel Ordained by the Oracle was the 55thĢ.The novel of 107 pages was set in the 60’s and the story is about a middle-aged woman, Pokuwaa who has been unable to bear a child.ģ.The opening chapter skillfully draws drama from a simple situation. Samuel Asare Konadu (1932-1994), a Ghanian publisher and novelist who wrote many novels. “A WOMAN IN HER PRIME” BY ASARE KONADU” (WAEC/NECO LIT EXAMS)ġ.
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