Gheysika Adombire Agambila had his education in Ghana (Navrongo and Achimota Secondary Schools) and the USA (Brandeis University, BA; University of Rochester, MBA; and New York University, Ph.D.). After working for many years in the USA, he returned to Ghana. He has been Deputy Minister of State in the Ghana government: Finance and Economic Planning; Harbours and Railways;, and Science and Environment. He was a lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School and a Senior Lecturer of Public Finance at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He has also been a Treasurer and the Vice President of the Ghana Association of Writers. Agambila has performed financial consultancy services in Sierra Leone and for Ghana’s National Development Planning Commission. He was a member of Ghana’s Constitution Review Implementation Committee. His novels include Journey, Bolga by Bus, Emigrant, and The Adventures of Hawa and Kofi. His books for children include Solma: Tales from Northern Ghana, Nature Stories, Cinderella and Other Tales: An African Retelling, and An African Retelling: The Pied Piper and Other Tales.
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Nature Stories: Crossing River Kulga & Other Stories
Age Range: 9 – 11 years
This is a collection of fun-to-read stories that focus on the environment. It teaches the relationship between man and nature and helps readers to appreciate nature better.
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Solma: Tales from Northern Ghana
This compilation of stories is specially written for children of all ages. This collection is culled from tales told among the Gurunsi people of Northern Ghana. They make interesting reading and teach children the needed moral and social values.
“… Mothers, go and tell your children that Kanwum lost her heart because she would not listen to her mother. Tell your children what happened to Kanwum and why it happened. Let your children’s children not forget this story. Children, go home and listen to your mothers and your fathers. Let this story be told as long as there are children.”
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Solma: Tales from Northern Ghana
Suitable for JHS students and children between 12 and 15 years
This compilation of stories is specially written for children of all ages. This collection is culled from tales told among the Gurunsi people of Northern Ghana. They make interesting reading and teach children the needed moral and social values.
“… Mothers, go and tell your children that Kanwum lost her heart because she would not listen to her mother. Tell your children what happened to Kanwum and why it happened. Let your children’s children not forget this story. Children, go home and listen to your mothers and your fathers. Let this story be told as long as there are children.”
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Cinderella and Other Tales: An African Retelling
Over the years, Parents and Teachers have complained about African children reading European fairy tales that do not reflect their culture. These European tales, A Patrimony of mankind, have been retold to help assuage these concerns.
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Bolga By Bus
A teenager sets on a long journey to find his father who abandoned his mother more than nine years ago. His journey takes him through the cultural and physical landscape of Ghana. He finally meets his uncle and grandmother. This meeting changes his life.
₵50.00Bolga By Bus
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The Pied Piper and Other Tales: An African Retelling
Over the years, parents and teachers have complained about African children reading European fairy tales that do not reflect their culture. It is for this reason that I have done a strike-through in the European title of the story of the girl and the seven dwarfs. These European tales, a patrimony of mankind, have been retold to help assuage these cultural concerns.
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The Shrinking Bowl
Young girls in Ghana confront a challenging socio-economic environment. This novel is the story of one such girl’s life-journey, from childhood to middle-age, and the lessons of this journey. It is a sequel to the author’s first novel, Journey.
“A delightful lifeworld weighted with history and almost untouched in African fiction…a world whose veneer of simplicity belies its tangled dark underbelly. The novel deftly combines the solace of familiarity with a mystery of memory and intimacy…quirky and endearing.” – Professor Helen A. Yitah, Dean, School of Languages, University of Ghana (UG) and Honourary Secretary, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences; former Head, Department of English, UG
“This book is a tour de force of its genre; a journey of discovery through a cultural landscape in a fascinating part of Ghana. Difficult to put down even at the end.” – Nana Kwasi Gyan Apenteng, Communications Consultant; former President, Ghana Association of Writers
₵70.00The Shrinking Bowl
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Emigrant
The unquenchable desire of every young Ghanaian man is to have regular delicious sex and to get a visa to a European or North American country. He would pray fervently to God so long as He owes him his wants. But if enemy spirits, like a dictatorial father, deny him the chance to leave Ghana, he would stay, fleece the country, have more sex, and watch European football. For these desires, he’d make a fetish of the church or the mosque. Joseph Adenera Akolgo was one such young man.
₵70.00Emigrant
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The Adventures of Hawa and Kofi
In this hilarious novella, two teenagers have to navigate the challenges of their lives and the influence of family and friends. But each experience teaches a lesson, and in the end, amor vincit omnia.
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Journey
‘Journey is an absorbing exploration of reality in contemporary Ghana, juxtaposing tradition and modernity, wise old age and frivolous youth, north and south, male and female…as a first novel, it is also valuable as it uses a northern Ghanaian setting.’ – Kari Dako, Author, translator and lecturer, Department of English, University of Ghana.₵80.00Journey
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Between the Generations: An Anthology for Ama Ata Aidoo at 80
Ama Ata Aidoo, multiple award-winning Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and author of the critically acclaimed play, Dilemma of a Ghost, turned 80 in March, 2020. And as part of efforts to celebrate her – the first female African playwright – Between Generations: An Anthology for Ama Ata Aidoo at 80 was released.
Described by Editor Ivor Agyeman-Duah, as ‘international affairs through fiction’, the 230-page collection tackles wealth and inequality, immigration, sisterhood, love lost and regained and other contemporary issues in Africa and the world.
Opening with Aleppo by Ama Ata Aidoo, the anthology includes stories by eleven other contemporary African writers: Nigerian novelists, Sefi Atta, Ogochukwu Promise; South African novelist, Njabulo S. Ndebele; Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop, Ghanaian novelists, Ayesha Haruna Attah, Bisi Adjapon, writers Martin Egblewogbe, and Gheysika Adombire Agambila; Rwandan writer, Louise Umutoni and Cameroonian writer Ray Ndebi.₵115.00