“The Advocacy,” a fictional story set in Ghana, by Melissa Fischer

Drawing from her own experience as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, Melissa Fischer in this book weaves a rich tale set in 1992 in Obuasi, a mining boomtown. The gold mine, West Africa Gold, dams the Gyimi River, stagnating the water source of Gyimiso Kakraba, a village of subsistence farmers who refuse to accept a modern world that has forsaken the art of human connection.
