Agnes Boateng and Jo Williams
Coming May 2025
About the Book
“Sisters” since 1975, Agnes and Jo met as teenagers after both decided to participate in a foreign exchange experience through AFS International.
When Jo discovered she had been matched with a family in Chiraa, Ghana, she knew nothing of this region of Africa, save for what she could find in Encyclopedia Britannica and a world atlas.
Her world soon expanded: After her first time on an airplane, staying in a hotel in New York, and (to the horror of a true Southerner!) drinking unsweetened iced tea, she said “maakye” to her host family five thousand miles from home.
Through a summer’s worth of adventures with each other, new friends young and old, and navigating the differences that span cultures and locales, these young women discovered a shared humanity that has spanned oceans and decades.
Abena and Akosua tell their story — interweaving the history and culture of Ghana with meeting new challenges, elephants and chiefs, and even Shirley Temple — demonstrating that the world is wondrous and lifelong bonds are unbreakable.
About the Authors
Agnes Boateng is a lecturer at Richmond Upon Thames College and the author of the textbook Combined English and Maths. She has lived in the same flat in London for more than thirty years. She has one son and three grandchildren.
In 2006, she founded Love Divine International, an orphanage and school in Sunyani, Ghana. She began with one student and now supports more than one hundred who attend regularly. Enrollment has outgrown the location, and she is hoping to expand.
Jo Williams is a social worker who owns her own counseling business in the town where she has lived for the past two decades with her forever husband. Between the two of them, they have six adult children.
She has traveled the world some and written as part of her career. She enjoys writing, whether with an educational goal in mind or simply for fun. This is her first book.
Together, they own an almond farm in Ghana.
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