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A captivating story of courage, love, forgiveness and freedom, as two women´s paths cross in pre-colonial Ghana. Aminah lives an idyllic village life until forced on a journey that will turn her from a daydreaming girl into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father´s court. Attah is an exciting new voice in African fiction.

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Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father´s court, but ends up living the opposite of her dream. These two women´s lives converge at the same time infighting among Wurche´s people threatens to leave the region exposed to powers much larger than themselves. One Hundred Wells is a story of courage, forgiveness, love and freedom and offers a remarkable view of slavery within Africa and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people.

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Ghanaian writer Ayesha Harruna Attah´s debut novel, Harmattan Rain, (Per Ankh Publishers) was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers´ Prize in 2010. Her second novel, Saturday´s Shadows (World Editions), was shortlisted for the 2013 Kwani? Manuscript Project. Ayesha was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and NYU. She was a 2014 Africa Centre Artists in Residency Award Laureate and Instituto Sacatar Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Asymptote Magazine, and the Caine Prize Writers´ 2010 Anthology. She was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for non-fiction. She currently lives in Senegal.

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