Interview with Ayesha Harruna Attah

Ayesha Harruna Attah is a Ghanaian writer based in Senegal. Her work lives in the spaces that history has chosen to keep hidden. She is the author of five novels: Harmattan Rain (Per Ankh Publishers), nominated for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Saturday’s Shadows (World Editions), shortlisted for the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013; The Hundred Wells of Salaga (Cassava Republic Press, UK; Other Press, US), a finalist for the 2020 William Saroyan Prize; a young adult novel, The Deep Blue Between (Pushkin Children’s); and Zainab Takes New York (Headline Accent), a rom-com.