Homegoing YAA GYASI

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Across
  1. 3. The country in which the novel begins.
  2. 4. Effia’s son, who faces conflict about his identity and role in the slave trade.
  3. 8. The central question of who we are, shaped by family, history and place.
  4. 11. The final Ghanaian descendant in the novel, who meets Marcus.
  5. 12. The final American descendant in the novel, a graduate student studying family history.
  6. 13. One of the half-sisters captured and sent to America
Down
  1. 1. The system in which people were treated as property and forcibly exploited.
  2. 2. The place where Effia lives above imprisoned enslaved people
  3. 3. The former name of Ghana, used during British colonial rule
  4. 5. One of the half-sisters whose descendants remain primarily in Ghana
  5. 6. A recurring image associated with Maame, fear and inherited trauma
  6. 7. Esi’s daughter, forced to work on a plantation
  7. 9. The first name of the author of Homegoing
  8. 10. A symbol passed down the two family lines: a black-and-gold stone