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Wonder World Book Cafe'102. Flying Through Water Mamle WoloSena's life on his farm in Ghana is difficult, and he'd do anything to help his family. A story of survival, human trafficking (a world-wide crisis), filled with adventure and anguish, heartbreak, and hope.
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2025-01-2009 minWonder World Book Cafe'37. Mamle Wolo The Kaya GirlSet in Ghana, Abena and Faiza, both 14 years old, meet in a busy market place where Faiza earns a meager living being a kayayoo (a porter girl). Abena left her plush lifestyle behind to spend the summer holidays working in her auntie's market cloth shop. The girls quickly develop a deep friendship; it's inconsequential that they don't speak the same language. Both are bright and curious about the world and are way out of their comfort zone. Auntie cannot support the friendship as she doesn't want Abena associating with a poor, uneducated kayayoo, yet in Faiza, Abena sees well...
2022-12-0309 min
Books With Abena6. Mamle Wolo on the book The Kaya GirlIn this episode, host Abena Maryan talks with guest Mamle Wolo about her book "The Kaya Girl" published by Little Brown and Company. She also talks about writing, publishing, and Pa Gya - a literary festival in Accra, Ghana. Mamle Wolo is an award-winning Ghanaian-German author who studied at the University of Cambridge and Lancaster University in the UK and is an Honorary Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa. She is one of directors of the Writers Project of Ghana (WPG). She writes fiction, poetry, and screenplays.
2022-10-1226 min
LB School & Library PodcastMamle Wolo on The Kaya GirlAward-winning Ghanaian-German author, Mamle Wolo takes the time to talk with Executive Director Victoria Stapleton about her new middle grade novel, The KAYA GIRL. The tale of two girl who form an unlikely and powerful friendship that transcends their social inequities and opens up new worlds to them both.
★ "Wolo’s book gives readers an opportunity to become immersed in West African culture while realizing the lessons of growing up include universal experiences: prejudice, poverty, and self-determination." —SLJ, starred review
★ "A heartwarming and inspiring tale of a friendship that surpasses class differences and social stigma." —Kirkus, starred review
2022-06-2825 min
Get Lost In The Full Audiobook That Keeps Busy Professionals Hooked.The Kaya Girl by Mamle WoloPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/11218to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Kaya Girl
Author: Mamle Wolo
Narrator: Ekua Ekumah
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
Release date: 06-28-22
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 8 ratings
Genres: Geography & Cultures
Publisher's Summary:
When Faiza, a Muslim migrant girl from northern Ghana, and Abena, a wealthy doctor’s daughter from the south, meet by chance in Accra’s largest market, where Faiza works as a porter or kaya girl, they strike up an unlikely and powerful friendship that transcends their social inequities and opens up new worlds to them both. Set against a back...
2022-06-286h 49