Marija develops feelings for Sissie and makes a pass at her, leaving Sissie to rethink the same-sex marriage that’s quietly strange to her. She befriends Sissie and often plucks the plum in her backyard for Sissie, making her equate herself with the sweet plum. The second section focuses on the love affair between Sissie and Marija Sommer, a German woman deserted by her husband. As a result of this, she realized she’s the only true African there, though she is super proud of her African heritage and doesn’t feel intimidated by the wealthy whites she’s in their midst. Sammy laughs uncontrollably, making her think he is set to praise the European culture and rebuke his. All she sees is a Europeanized African man who now takes pride in answering “Sammy” instead of his African name. When she learned his name is Sammy, she fails to catch his name.

At one of her dinners, she met a guy from Ghana. They drive her around the town and take her to have an expensive dinner and European wine. Sissie arrives in Germany and is picked up by a wealthy host in a luxurious Mercedes Benz. The novel is divided into four sections, and the first is named – Call Into Dream. She became tensely disillusioned finding out Africans who initially left the continent on the cover to acquire an education and pursue a better life in the foreign land have now resorted to flattering the European colonizers and are unwilling to return home to pass their knowledge to others who may be in dire need of it at home.Īidoo hides under Sissie to criticize how Africans adulate the white supremacists and buy into their notions.

The novel tells the tales of Sissie, the protagonist, who left her West African country of origin - Ghana- on a state-sponsored scholarship to pursue a career in education in Germany. Our Sister Killjoy is the debut novel of Ama Ata Aidoo, a former Ghanaian Minister for Education, published in 1977. Our Sister Killjoy is a book by a Ghanaian author – Ama Ata Aido0.

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