CHARACTERS
Lydia
What is the name of Abena’s aunt?
The market where Abena's Aunt has as shop.
Makola Market
The country this story is set in.
What is Ghana?
The contest Abena has entered.
What is Junior Journalists?
How long Faiza has been in Accra.
What is She has just arrived?
Gifty
Who is the girl that lives with Abena and her Auntie.
The home where Abena is living for the summer.
What is Aunt Lydia's home.
A Ghanaian word that means “load” or “goods”.
What is Kaya?
The big news Abena gets from her father at the end of Ch. 11.
What is Abena's baby brother has been born?
The word that describes how the rice Abena cooks for her Aunt turns out.
What is crunchy?
Koshie
What is the name of the cousin who came to stay at Abena's house?
The way they refer to the school Abena attends.
What is “The American School”?
A folded head tie originally from Nigeria.
What is a gele?
At the end of Ch. 9, the lie Abena tells her Auntie for why she is late.
Abena is disappointed that her Auntie’s shop does not have this item.
What is a cash till?
Mike and Stephen (or Peter and Paul)
Who are the Blankson's twins?
The place Abena's father can "barely get away from... these days."
What is the clinic?
A slang expression that means disgusting or low quality.
What is nyama-nyama?
In Ch. 8, what Faiza asks to see again on the internet.
What is information about the sun and the planets?
The language Faiza speaks.
What is Dagbanli?
Auntie Fati
What is the name of the Auntie who raised Faiza?
Where Faiza sleeps at night.
What is a kiosk (the My Redeemer Lives Hair salon)?
A muslim man who has completed his Hajj.
What is an Alhaji?
In Ch. 10, the reason Faiza gives for why she has come to Accra and Makola Market.
What is to search for her "sister-cousin" Asana?
What Faiza says when Abena proclaims that she hates okro.
What is, "It is my best crop"?