Christine A Botchway – författare

When Araba Pari, a gifted young teacher, is sent from Accra to teach in a remote highland school she is at first dismayed. When she realizes that there is a mystery surrouding the reluctance of all the previous teachers to stay more than a few months, she is determined to beat the apparent jinx.

A teenager's recollections of a coup in the country, is told in the form of letters to her grandmother.