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Culture Days will return September 20 – October 13, 2024.

  • Maame Book Cover showing a young woman carrying her baby on her back, Maame is Nzema / Twi word for Mother
  • Author Elizabeth Allua Vaah
  • River Amanzule in Aakonu, a key landmark in the book, Maame

@Bramptonlibrary: Maame - Stories from Ghana

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Indigenous Intercultural Storytelling Writing & literature Youth & teens
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Date and time

This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.

Location

Virtual celebrations at Brampton Library

Brampton, ON

Directions: Brampton Library has eight locations. Due to COVID 19 health restrictions, we are unable to host the activities at our branches. However, we invite you to join us at our virtual platform to enjoy Culture Days online presentations from our talented community.

Access

Free.

Offered in English.

Virtual Activity

About

In this video I discuss some of the key themes in my book, Maame in conversation with Writers Project Ghana. Maame introduces the reader to the community of Aakonu, a small village in Ghana, the lives of the women in the community, resilience, sacrifice and strength of women.

I hope viewers learn a thing or two about rural Ghanaian women. For more, get your copy of Maame from Brampton Library or at your nearest book store.

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Organizer

Elizabeth Allua Vaah

Elizabeth Allua Vaah is the author of the novel Maame, which tells the stories of three generations of women, exploring the transition from girlhood into motherhood within the complex world of a rural Ghanaian community.

Elizabeth Allua Vaah grew up in Bakanta, a small village in the Western Region of Ghana. She is a graduate of the University of Ghana and the University of Connecticut (MBA). She moved with her family from Ghana to Canada in late 2010 following a harrowing experience with childbirth.

Allua calls herself a Maternal Health Migrant. She is a co-founder of the Vaah Junior Foundation for Better Maternal and Child Health. Allua is a strong environmentalist. She is currently heavily engaged in the fight against Irresponsible mining practices that has left waterbodies in southern and central Ghana heavily polluted with mercury and silt.

She is also a strong advocate for girl child education, never failing to use her own life story as an example of how girls’ education impacts generations. Allua works in Risk Management at TD Bank in Toronto. She lives in Brampton, Ontario with her husband, Thomas Vaah and their five children - Rejoice, Angela, Lois, Nana and Nyilale (Junior) Vaah.

Contact

Elizabeth Vaah

lizvaah@yahoo.com

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