Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

  eleven of us met Saturday Sept. 10 to discuss Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo. I started the discussion by asking the group: Did you just love Sankofa ? I did. I had read it over a year ago and I just re-read it over the last two days. Robin: I didn’t love Anna, I guess she had sort of tough childhood. I just wanted her to be tougher, braver. I thought she was so different in how she responded to things the way I would’ve, but I wasn’t raised as a biracial child by a white woman. Robin gave us a summary of the story:   Anna is a biracial woman in her fifties(?) her mother was white woman who lived in London but was Welsh. Her father was an African Student named Francis Aggrey who rented a room from Anna’s grandfather in the 1950s. Anna’s mother found out she was pregnant after Francis Aggrey went back to Africa. Anna was brought up in the household of her mother, her grandparents, and her aunt Caryl. Anna grows up and gets married to a white man and has a daughter Rose w...