Abi Dare is a British writer who grew up in Nigeria. She had a comfortable upbringing, but the knowledge that she would eventually go off to school while other girls her age would stay and work as housemaids for families like hers--this stuck with her and eventually inspired her book The Girl with the Louding Voice--the story of Adunni, who against all odds fights her way out of the desperate situations she experiences as a young woman in Nigeria to achieve her long fought goal of receiving an education, and finding her “voice, her louding voice.” Adunni is a smart and courageous young woman, and The Girl with the Louding Voice is a powerful story
Abi Dare Book Debut: The Girl With the Louding Voice
