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Nyani Nkrumah — Wade in the Water - with Lesli Foster
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January 24, 2023
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45:29Now PlayingSet in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella's community to carry out some research. Soon, Ms. St. James befriends Ella, who is willing to risk everything to keep her new friend in a town that does not want her there. The relationship between Ella and Ms. St. James, at times loving and funny and other times tense and cautious, becomes more fraught and complex as Ella unwittingly pushes at Ms. St. James's carefully constructed boundaries that guard a complicated past, and dangerous secrets that could have devastating consequences. Told in two voices, Ella's and Ms. St. James's, and set around richly developed characters, this riveting, page turning coming of age story will keep readers entranced until the last shocking revelation.
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Nyani Nkrumah was born in Boston and raised in Accra, Ghana and Harare, Zimbabwe. Her love of writing comes from her mother, a teacher who entertained her children by reciting Shakespeare during car rides to school. She’s a dual biology and black studies major at Amherst, has a masters from the University of Michigan, a Ph.D from Cornell, and is a Fulbright Scholar. She lives in the D.C. area with her husband and two children.
Nkrumah is in conversation with Lesli Foster. Foster has spent more than two decades working to earn the trust and respect of viewers in the greater Washington DC area in her role as a journalist, advocate and first informer. She works to inspire and make an impact through her work as a weeknight anchor at 5, 6 and 11pm. She also leads the station’s “Impact” series that links WUSA9 journalists with the community to solve problems.
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