Ghana: For Nightbloom, Peace Adzo Medie used her academic research on gender in African countries to “try to understand the decisions that women make in relationships; how much women pay attention to what people in their families say”. By oliviasnaije
What Medie wanted to examine was “less about the physical act of violence and more about the response to violence…The shaming of survivors only protects the rapist. People might not be aware that this is the result of. I wanted to write about how one goes through life and the minutiae of having this experience and not getting support. This is a story that is familiar to many people”.
The results of her research were not only negative, says Medie – while some family members did try to prevent survivors from seeking help; others encouraged them to seek assistance.When she was a child, Medie says she was a keen observer, as she moved across social classes. “When I lived in Liberia, I would say we were comfortable, then there was the war and we moved and lost everything. You’re very aware of not having things you used to have.
Akorfa, part of a privileged class of children in Ghana, goes to a school with an Anglo-Saxon curriculum, on track to then attend a school abroad. When she reaches the US for college as her mother expects her to, Medie examines Akorfa going through culture shock.as a graduate student in the US? Medie says it was more about what she had observed and heard.
“I’ve always wondered how people who come from very wealthy families in Ghana and other places in Africa adjust to life in the US where people think those who are from Africa are coming from places of great suffering where not much is good,” she tells
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