Breaking the Maafa Chain

Salimatu and her sister Fatmata are captured, sold to slavers, renamed and split apart. Now Sarah and Faith, will these once inseparable sisters survive the traumas of their enslavement without each other? Or are the burdens of the wicked systems of slavery too much for their young hearts to bear?

About the author

Anni Domingo is an Actress, Director and Writer, working in Radio, TV, Films and Theatre after training at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. She appeared in Inua Ellam's 'Three Sisters', a play set in Nigeria during the Biafran War, at the National Theatre (UK) and toured Robert Icke's 'The Doctor' to Australia early in 2020.

She currently lectures Drama and Directing at St. Mary's University in Twickenham, Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, Students and at RADA. Anni's poems and short stories are published in various anthologies and her plays produced in the UK.

An extract from her novel Breaking the Maafa Chain won the Myriad Editions First Novel competition in 2018 and is featured in the New Daughters of Africa (2019) anthology edited by Margaret Busby. Anni recently won a place at Hedgebrook Writers Retreat and Norwich National Writing Centre's 'Escalator' programme enabling her to start working on Ominira, her second novel.

Her first novel, Breaking the Maafa Chain, is scheduled to be published in 2021 by Jacaranda.

Summary

Salimatu and her sister Fatmata are captured, sold to slavers, renamed and split apart. Now Sarah and Faith, will these once inseparable sisters survive the traumas of their enslavement without each other? Or are the burdens of the wicked systems of slavery too much for their young hearts to bear?

Product details

• Authors: Anni Domingo
• Publisher: Jacaranda Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.09.2022
• EAN: 9781913090784
• ISBN: 978-1-913090-78-4
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Stephanie Plum; Jacaranda
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; English, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Sociology: family & relationships, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Sociology: family and relationships, Slavery and abolition of slavery