MCQEasy1 mark
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Where was Adjoa born?
Topic: Setting of the story
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Answer
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(b) Ghana.
Explanation
Ama Ata Aidoo is a Ghanaian writer, and the story is rooted in a Ghanaian village, with Nana’s traditional expectations of what a woman’s legs and body should be. Fixing the setting matters because the story’s conflict — tradition against a girl’s own gift — grows directly out of that community.
In words
Ghana.
Example
Ghana — in the small village of Hasodzi.
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