Million-dollar debut tackles slavery

Homegoing by Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi sparked a bidding war among America's biggest publishers. It finally sold for more than one million dollars.

Described by one reviewer as 'Roots for the 21st century', Homegoing is a historical novel set in Ghana and America which examines the role West Africans played, alongside Europeans, in the transatlantic slave trade.

The BBC’s Leslie Goffe reports.

(Photo: Author Yaa Gyasi and cover artwork from Homegoing. Credit: Images courtesy of Alfred Knopf.)