His Only Wife is a beautiful book by the author Peace Adzo Medie.
Afi Tekple is a young tailor from Ghana. She is smart; she’s beautiful; and she was persuaded by her mother to marry a man she did not know. Afi knows who he is—Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother chose Afi in the hope that she would distract him from his relationship with a woman his family considers is not suitable.
But Afi wasn’t ready for the change of her life when she moved from her tiny hometown of Ho to live in Accra, Ghana’s glitzy capital, a place of wealth and sophistication where she had her days off. What to do but cook a meal for a man. who may or may not appear to eat them. She agreed to this marriage to give her mother the financial security she desperately needed, and so she had to get through it.
His Only Wife is a witty, intelligent, and moving debut novel about a young woman bravely traversing the minefield of modern life with its taboos and injustices.
In a world of men who want their wives to be beautiful, to cook well and to be mothers. , are women who respect their husbands and tolerate them. And in Afi, Peace Medie created an interesting and believable heroine who can break all the rules.
