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“Willie smiled at Robert, and it wasn’t until that smile that she realized she forgave him.  She felt like the smile had opened a valve, like the pressure of anger and sadness and confusion and loss was shooting out of her, in the sky and away

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H finds his sense of home in Pratt City where he is reunited with his lover, Ethe. Together they give birth to Willie who does not find her home and sense of self until the end of her chapter. She has a family and a place to live, but none of it feels normal until she is able to escape her negative realties and adopt new ones with her kids.

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Pratt City life was not easy, but it was better than the living H had known anywhere else. He had never seen anything like it before. White men and their families next door to black men and theirs. Both colors joining the same unions, fighting for the same things.

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He thought about going back home, but realized that he didn’t know where home was. There was nothing left for him on the old plantations he’d worked, and he had no family to speak of.

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H's home is Pratt City, but it took him a long time to find somewhere that he felt comfortable. He was placed into the prison system where he was forced back into slavery. Once he was finally taken out of this environment, he settled down in Pratt City with a large number of other ex criminals. He finds a girlfriend and eventually has a daughter. He also works in the mines and begins to join a union in order to increase pay. He ultimately does not find a home until he is fully out of slavery and the ills of American society, and settles down with a family.

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“Tomorrow night, you will marry Nana Yaa, so that even if the Asante King and all of his men come knocking on my door, they cannot deny you.”

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“Tomorrow night, you will marry Nana Yaa, so that even if the Asante King and all of his men come knocking on my door, they cannot deny you.”

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Fiifi is not Quey’s maternal uncle meaning that Quey was not born of Fiifi’s mother’s daughter. Because of this, he is technically not the individual that would inherit the ruling after Fiifi, however, Fiifi wants him to. In order to make this happen, Fiifi wants him to marry the King of the Asante Village’s daughter so that he cannot be killed by him. I believe that Fiifi is doing this, in part, to make Effia feel comfortable enough to return to her village and live in peace. She is currently terrified because of the evil that once existed there, however, I think this is Fiifi’s attempt at making amends. In addition, I think he is apologizing for his mother treating Effia with such disrespect. 

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Effia's son has a different perspective on home. His idea of home is a physical place due to the fact that his father sent him away. Quey was sent to London due to his sexuality, so he never got to experience home as a mental space. When he returned, he began living with Fiifi, his brother, where he was given a place to live and eventually a place to rule. He is also a half-caste that is kept separate from the castle in a small home with his mother. He never makes friends or feels like he fits in until he begins running Fanteland.

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Family is Effia's sense of home

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"Look at the baby. Born to his mother, he learns how to eat from her, how to walk, talk, hunt, run. He does not invent new ways. He just continues with the old. This is how we all come to the world, James. Weak and needy, desperate to learn how to be a person...But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way."

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“...Baaba hacked from her throat, spit on the ground before Effia’s feet, and said, ‘You are nothing from nowhere. No mother and no father.’ She looked at Effia’s stomach and smiled. ‘What can grow from nothing?’”

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Effia can never seem to find her sense of home. Throughout the novel, she knows that the village that she was born into is what she should consider her home, however, the experiences that she had there does not allow it to have that title. After being sent to the castles for marriage, she finds that this is not a home-like environment either. She is not allowed to explore around, and the only people that speak her language are some of the other wives . Once Effia has a son, she finds a sense of family and home that she did not necessarily have before. This sense of home is not a location, but a feeling that she has when she is around her family.

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“Home” to each individual in the novel is extremely different. Although they are all connected and related in some way, their cultures are ultimately different, and the spaces they call home are as well. Some villages were colonized, some people sold into slavery, some were taken from their homes, and some became a large part of the problem; each person, however, is positioned in a different space that they consider their home regardless of their circumstance.