Aminatta Forna discusses her book The Memory of Love on BBC WS Africa (part 2)

The Memory of Love is the latest novel of Sierra Leonean and Scottish writer Aminatta Forna, she visited Bush House studios for a chat with the BBC's Bola Mosuro. Part two - Oppression and resistance The tortuous events of Sierra Leone's history have dominated Forna's writing. She is the daughter of a former Sierra Leonean cabinet minister and dissident, murdered by the state in 1975.

And people's reaction to oppression is a major theme through The Memory of Love and Aminatta Forna's previous works. In this second part of the interview Bola Mosuro asks the author about the audience that she has in mind when she is writing her books.

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