"This book is dedicated to my dear parents,
Reverend Alfred and Mrs. Loretta Edwards,
and to all of my honored ancestors."
-Vernelle Edwards, Author

Missionary
By: Vernelle Edwards
Release Date: February 7, 2006

The time is 1979. "Missionary" follows the adventures of Naomi, a beautiful College of Charleston student who travels to Africa and finds herself in the middle of a military coup.

Naomi convinces her strict, southern Baptist parents that she heard God's calling to become a missonary so they would let her travel to Ghana. She neglects to tell them that she's in love with Emmanuel Edrah, a Ghanaian student she has been secretly dating.

This poignant tale explores the love of God, family, friends, first love and revolutionary love. The author weaves historical events with fictional characters so well that the reader feels an instant familiarity.

Reader's Review
Ms. Edwards has written a very fascinating and interesting book. She sets her story in two of the most significant places in the African and African-American experience: Charleston, South Carolina and Ghana, West Africa. These are two places with which Africans and Americans of African descent have many ancestral and emotional ties because of their connections to the slave trade, Gullah-geechee culture, Pan-Africanism, and African independence movements.

The novel focuses primarily on the love relationship that developed between a native of Charleston and a Ghanaian attending the College of Charleston. The
setting of the novel alternates back and forth from Charleston to Accra, Ghana.

The romance is paralleled by the rise of the regime of Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings as Ghana's ruler after a coup in 1979. This seemingly insider's view of the 1979 coup makes the book more than just a tale of obsessive love and eventual marriage...

Dr. William Marvin Dulaney,
Director of the Avery Research Center African-American Museum
Charleston, South Carolina

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