TY - BOOK AU - Onuzo,Chibundu TI - Sankofa: a novel SN - 9781646220830 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Catapult KW - Women KW - Race identity KW - Fiction KW - Self-realization in women KW - Racially mixed people KW - Bambara (African people) KW - Race relations KW - Families KW - Africa, West KW - Humorous fiction KW - lcgft N2 - A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's student diaries, chronicling his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. She discovers that he eventually became the president - some would say the dictator - of Bamana in West Africa. She also discovers that he is still alive. She decides to track him down and so begins a funny, painful, fascinating journey, and an exploration of race, identity and what we pass on to our children ER -