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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Aidoo, Ama Ata.

Changes: a love story / Ama Ata Aidoo: afterword by Tuzyline Jita Allan.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-155861-914-2

1. Women—Ghana—Accra—Fiction. 2. Man-woman relationships—Ghana—Accra—Fiction. 3. Accra (Ghana)—

Fiction I. Title

PR9379.9.A35C48 1993

823—dc20

                                          98-29102