What country of Africa does Nettie live in the Color Purple?(book)?

Answer 1

Johnslat is right - Nettie lives in Olinka - a country invented by Alice Walker
". I do not know from what part of Africa my African ancestors came, and so I claim the continent. I suppose I have created Olinka as my village and the Olinkans as one of my ancient, ancestral tribal peoples."
http://www.dhushara.com/book/orsin/rites/joy.htm

Answer 2

Here's the town:

"Olinka: Olinka is the small African village in which Corrine, Samuel, Nettie, Adam, and Olivia live for the majority of the children's youth. They learn much from these people, and vice versa. Unfortunately, the village of Olinka is destroyed when the contractors build a road through it, forcing the people to pay for everything they have previously owned."

Here's the section of Africa:

"And Celie's children, Samuel and Corrine live with the Olinka in a small village in West Africa. They all teach and nurse and Samuel preaches. Corrine lets her thoughts about how strong the resemblance between her adopted children and Nettie fester and, with help."

In The Color Purple, the Olinka, the fictional tribe that Nettie visits as a missionary, were located in West Africa. Because the West African climate was
uncomfortable for most Europeans, they used tribes who were native to the area as a source of labor. Rubber trees, which produce a sap that is processed into rubber, were a major crop throughout West Africa. In The Color Purple, the Olinka’s lands
were destroyed to make way for rubber tree plantations."

Sorry - can't find the country mentioned anywhere - but then, it IS fiction.

" Well, here's a site that says the COUNTRY (fictional) is Olinka:

"The early 1990s were a difficult time for Walker, for she ended her 13 year relationship with Robert Allen and contracted Lyme disease. But none of these things stopped her from writing. Shortly before addressing the controversy of The Color Purple in The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, Walker produced another book which brought about much controversy in the critical world, Possessing the Secret of Joy, in 1992. The book focused on Tashi, a young woman living in the fictional African country of Olinka, who is forced by her tribe to take part in the rituals of female circumcision, a process which ruins the rest of Tashi's life. The novel describes graphically the process of female genital mutilation and the repercussions of such actions, including not only physical and psychological problems, but also an inability to keep intact gender. Before the book is finished, Tashi loses all pleasure from sexual encounters, gives birth to a mentally-challenged son, and due to the traumatic nature of the chain of events, is driven to murder the woman who initially circumcised her."

Answer 3

The one that had 5

Answer 4

i love that book so much its the best even though it does have some nasty parts its good. i think she lives somewhere in the west. am thinkin its somewhere in Liberia possibly

Answer 5

i think ethiopia