Peace Medie’s Novel ‘His only Wife’ eyes for TV Series
SK Global and The Mazur Kaplan Company have acquired rights to acclaimed Ghanaian writer and academic Peace Adzo Medie’s novel His Only Wife and has been billed as “A Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa” in its Kirkus review.
His Only Wife tells the empowering story of a young seamstress in Ghana whose life transforms after she accepts a marriage proposal from a man of a wealthy family she barely knows.
She then relocates to the capital city of Accra and discovers that her marriage is not as she had always dreamed of. However, she begins to explore the city, finds independence she never had before imagined for herself.
Medie’s novel was published in September this year by Algonquin Books. It is a New York Times 2020 Notable Book of the Year, a Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020, and the October selection for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club.
The acquisition is the first following SK Global and The Mazur Kapan Company’s recently announced first-look development pact, which included five initial new novels. The company is looking into possibilities with the author for the book’s development as either an English-language movie or a TV series.
“After reading Peace’s beautiful novel, we were driven to build on what she created. We’re honored to take this journey with her and Mazur Kaplan,” SK Global President of Television Marcy Ross said.
Added Paula Mazur, president of The Mazur Kaplan Company: “Peace brought to life a character and slice of Ghana that is unique and captivating. Mazur Kaplan is excited to bring a novel that has resonated deeply with so many readers to screen alongside SK Global.”
Peace Medie is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and International Politics at the University of Bristol.
She is a co-editor of the top-ranked African Studies journal African Affairs, and is a Research Fellow at LECIAD, University of Ghana, as well as a 2015-2017 Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow.
His Only Wife is represented by Aevitas Creative Management and Thompson Literary Agency. Medie is repped by Kiele Raymond at Thompson Literary.
