The Woman Who Sold Gobe

A Ghanaian Mother, Her Son, and the Power of Resilience

She fed a family. She built a future.

Before resilience became a fashionable word, one Ghanaian mother lived it every day.

She rose early, worked through uncertainty and sold gobe—a humble meal of beans and gari—to keep her family moving forward. What looked like a small food business was, in truth, an engine of survival: school fees, daily meals, protection from hardship and a foundation upon which her children could build their lives.

In The Woman Who Sold Gobe, Victor Kwawukume honours the labour that families often depend upon but history rarely records. Told from a son’s perspective, the book explores sacrifice, motherhood, faith, enterprise, dignity and the quiet decisions through which one woman nourished far more than the people who gathered around her bowls.

This is not merely a story about food. It is a story about what a mother can build when love is forced to become resourceful.

For readers of

African memoir, Ghanaian history and culture, migration stories, women’s resilience, family legacy, faith and community enterprise.

For book clubs, churches and community groups

The Woman Who Sold Gobe can anchor conversations about motherhood, resilience, faith, family responsibility, women’s enterprise, Ghanaian identity and intergenerational memory. Group-reading, author-conversation and bulk-copy enquiries are welcome.

Continue the journey

For a wider story of migration, reinvention and rebuilding identity across Ghana and Canada, continue with The Glass Ceiling of Life.