King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, And The Inspiring Story Of How She Changed An African Village (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Loved this book, I recommend it every chance I get. She is someone I would want to be. I hope she comes out with another book and book tour, so I can meet her.A wonderful true story of a woman living in D.C. who finds out that her village has made her King (it's more complicated then that - but that's the jist). Once she accepts she brings great changes (that are simple changes to us) education, clean water, a bank, to her village, all the while battling a corrupt council, spirits, and unusual laws (that is unusual to me).Definitely, a feel good book. -I think it should be made into a movie :) Set in Ghana and in Washington, D.C., this is the true-life story of a young Ghanaian woman, working at her embassy in Washington, receiving a call to be King of her village back home in Ghana. How she answers the call and travels back and forth to fill both roles, is an amazing story. With some assistance on both sides of the world, she overcomes countless setbacks and failures, attempting to uphold the values of her people and to improve their quite hopeless lives, while being robbed right and left, disrespected, betrayed and swindled by her own relatives. In the attempt to give her uncle (the last Kind of Otuam)a decent burial, she ends up providing a very expensive funeral for the wrong man! Reading this book will provide you with the wherewithal to meet your own life’s circumstances with dignity and aplomb! --Lydia
What do You think about King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, And The Inspiring Story Of How She Changed An African Village (2012)?
Really good. Great to see good people can make such a different and improve other people's lives.
—ivitm
Amazing how one person in the right place can bring good changes to a small community in Africa.
—miha
