Interdits

According to Cambridge dictionary the word interdits is a French word and in English it means something or someone that is banned, unauthorized, or not allowed. This term relates to the novel because in the novel it talks about how the author’s grandmother moved in and out of the New York places where negroes were interdits. She Is saying negroes were being moved around in places they were banned. She wasn’t living comfortably because of her being moved out her house consistently. The novel also says she was gathering her intelligence on the world that white people inhabited, and she feels like she about to be made.

Ghana

 According to Wikipedia officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east. Ghana is the second-most populous country in West Africa, after Nigeria. This country relates to the novel because when Marie arrived in Ghana, she intentionally blows her cover, revealing all of ross and Slater’s machinations to Sankara.