Sankofa

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.