{"product_id":"guanya-pau-a-story-of-an-african-princess","title":"Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess","description":"\u003cp\u003eGuanya Pau, daughter of a Vai chief in Liberia, is betrothed as a young child to a man she comes to despise. As her sixteenth birthday approaches and her arranged marriage looms, she flees into the forest with her devoted friend Jassah rather than submit — carrying with her a secret love for a young man named Momo, and a vow that she would rather die than become another man's unwilling wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in Cleveland in 1891 while its author, Joseph J. Walters, was still an undergraduate at Oberlin College, \"Guanya Pau\" is considered the earliest surviving novel published in English by a Black African writer. Walters, born in Liberia to Vai parents, wrote the book as an impassioned plea against child betrothal and polygamy, framed as a tragic, tender love story of a princess who chooses her own heart over the fate assigned to her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition is in the public domain (Walters died in 1894). The text was digitized from a public-domain scan of the original 1891 printing, cross-checked against a second archival scan to recover its final page, and cleaned and reformatted by Nile Book Store. The text is unabridged.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph J. Walters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67521288634616,"sku":"EN-WALTERS-GUANYA-PAU","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/guanya_leo_final.jpg?v=1790394468","url":"https:\/\/nilebookstore.com\/ar\/products\/guanya-pau-a-story-of-an-african-princess","provider":"Nile Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}