Makeeda is a fourteen year old Ghanaian whose love of all things Western causes her family to despair. She is always being compared to the dutiful and obedient Afua, her Aunt Grace's daughter. But it seems that whatever Makeeda does, it ends up in...
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Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
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Makeeda is a fourteen year old Ghanaian whose love of all things Western causes her family to despair. She is always being compared to the dutiful and obedient Afua, her Aunt Grace's daughter. But it seems that whatever Makeeda does, it ends up in trouble. She just wants to hang out with the fit Nelson and her mates, and forget about the Ghanaian stuff. But when she has to do a school project, she begins to understand the depth of her cultural heritage and wonders if she can honour her culture and enjoy life as a London teenager
?Listen, if you want to see Nelson, you have to lie,' Tanisha insisted.?Seriously?'?Yeah, unless you actually want to wait till you're eighteen.'?Ohmigod! I hate this.' I said, reaching for my phone.I knew she was right. My parents would never let me...
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?Listen, if you want to see Nelson, you have to lie,' Tanisha insisted.?Seriously?'?Yeah, unless you actually want to wait till you're eighteen.'?Ohmigod! I hate this.' I said, reaching for my phone.I knew she was right. My parents would never let me meet him.Makeeda loves her life and her friends in London. Her parents wish she'd spend less time texting her mates and more time finding out about her Ghanaian roots. So when she meets the very fit DJ Nelson, Makeeda starts to break her family's rules. Life gets even more complicated when she falls out with her best friend, Bharti. Can Make