The Hundred Wells of Salaga

Aminah grows up in a happy home and dreams her days away. Then she is torn from that home by force and taken on a long, hard road that turns her into a resilient woman. The novel follows her through that change.

Wurche is the willful daughter of a chief. She wants a real part in her father's court and is impatient with the place she has been given.

The two women are born to very different fates, and the book tells the story through both of them in turn. Their lives meet as infighting among Wurche's people puts the whole region in danger.

This is historical fiction based on true events. It is set in pre-colonial Ghana at the end of the nineteenth century, when the slave trade was at its height and the scramble for Africa was reaching the region.

The focus stays on ordinary people rather than rulers or armies, showing how slavery and European colonial ambition touched their daily lives. Courage, forgiveness, love and freedom run through both women's stories.