At one of these dinners, Sissie meets Sammy, a boy who is also from Ghana and whose real name she “does not catch.” Sissie is unnerved by Sammy, whom she feels has lost touch with his home country and has been placed at the party to sing the praises of life in Europe. The first, “Into a Bad Dream,” Sissie arrives in Germany and is picked up by her wealthy host family in a luxurious Mercedes. The book is written in a combination of traditional prose and verse. In the process, she discovers the realities of colonization, Europe's effect on the young Africans it sponsors, and how both white Europeans and black Africans have been mistaught about the realities of race and racism in their everyday lives. Our Sister Killjoy: or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint (1977), the debut novel of Ghanaian author and former Minister of Education Ama Ata Aidoo, tells the story of Sissie, a young African woman who goes to Europe to better herself and receive a proper, European education.
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