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Examples
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'Forna's touch is assured,' said Catherine Taylor.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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That is one of the questions that Forna approaches with the utmost caution in an ambitious and deeply researched novel – and the answers she finds are never easy.
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Forna, whose paternal family is from Sierra Leone, has lived with a good deal of that horror close to home.
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The metaphor of a healer in a place of insane violence is a familiar trope from The Last King of Scotland, and the books of Michael Ondaatje, and elsewhere, but by setting up the contrast between her physicians of mind and body Forna develops it in interesting ways.
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Aminatta's Scottish mother spirited the three Forna children out of the country, back to London, where they grew up.
Paula Gordon: Grace 2008
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Forna, who now splits her time between London and Sierra Leone, is also working to advance her own West African community: in 2002 she helped build a school in her hometown of Rogbonko, and she is currently involved with re-planting her grandfather's plantation in order to breathe life into the village's economy.
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In this issue, Forna salutes Adolphine Asimah, the founder of a Ghana-based organization that assists women with developing their business trades.
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M-Pesa's success inspired Sheka Forna back to his homeland, Sierra Leone, to start Splash.
The Guardian World News Meena Bhandari 2011
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But Splash's growth has been slower than the company's projections, says Forna.
The Guardian World News Meena Bhandari 2011
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Forna was born in Scotland, grew up in Sierra Leone and lives in London.
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