• Medicine

    Inaugural Lectures

    Lectures included in this collection are:

    Health, Medicine and Society – Professor S.K. Owusu (25 March 1994)

    The Future of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Ghana – Professor K. Frimpong-Boateng (7 October 2003)

    Voyage from Birth to Death: Health Hazards for Ghanaians – Professor J.O.M. Pobee (2004)

    Medicine

    10.00
  • Improving Human Livelihood

    Inaugural lecture by Professor Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, University of Ghana. Delivered in March 2006.

  • The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences: A Historical Perspective

    Published in 2009, during the Golden Jubilee year of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, this book presents a comprehensive account of the Academy’s activities in its first fifty years.

    The author was elected Vice President of the Science Section of the Academy in 1996 and, in 2006, she became the first female President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Generating Electricity from Sunlight: Global Trends and Developments in Ghana

    A paper prepared for the Academy of Arts and Sciences, by Professor Fred Ohene Akuffo, retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Submitted in August 2007.

  • Chemistry: The Neglected Element in the Industrialization Equation

    Inaugural lecture by Professor Victor Patrick Yao Gadzekpo, former President, Central University College (now Central University). Delivered on June 29, 2005.

  • Lagos: City of the Imagination – Hardcover

    “I don’t think you can be in Lagos without becoming aware of its potency; when Lagos gets itself organised it will be extremely powerful; and already – without organisation – it is very powerful.” Rem Koolhaas, 2002

    Lagos is fast becoming a global city – a place people visit for curiosity and the vibe as much as for business or family. The mesmerising energy and intensity of the city have to be experienced to be understood. But what is the story of Lagos? When did the city begin? Who were the first inhabitants? When did it become the city of iniquity and wisdom that continues to confound all who encounters it? Who have been the key chroniclers of this real yet imaginary city?

    Veteran journalist and writer Kaye Whiteman has given us a gem that answers these questions and more. Lagos: City of the Imagination explains the origins of Lagos as both outpost of the Benin Empire and also the city run by the White Cap Chiefs. Whiteman shows that Lagos was always multicultural and cosmopolitan, with the Portuguese and later educated returnees from Sierra Leone and artisans from Brazil adding to the eclectic mix.

    The book examines the key moments in the history of Lagos: from the concerted attack by the British in the 1860s, Independence in 1960, the 1966 coup through to FESTAC and the assassination of Murtala Muhammed. Also included are vivid character portraits of some of the most powerful Lagosians in history, from Oba Kosoko and Madam Tinubu, to well-regarded colonial figures such as Sir Bernard Bourdillon and those – like Lord Lugard – not so fondly remembered.

    As the name suggests, Lagos: City of the Imagination deals extensively in those for whom Lagos is the backdrop of their work, from highlife musicians and Fela Kuti to Wole Soyinka and, more recently, the American-Nigerian writer Teju Cole.

    Lagos: City of the Imagination is an absorbing and delightful “must-read” for anyone with an interest in one of the most dramatic cities of the 21st century.

  • Entertainment Night (Senior High School Days #5)

    If the entertainment prefect thinks his idea of amusement will please every student, he is sadly mistaken.

    Asamoah doesn’t see any amusement in what the prefect has in mind, despite the loud publicity of the coming event. To him real entertainment must be vigorous, shake the bones, and draw sweat – not this boring thing everybody is talking about.

    So while the other students are enjoying themselves, Asamoah sneaks out of campus to the Beach Front in a wild quest for proper amusement.

    But, if what goes on at the Bach Front is so great, why does Asamoah run back to school so fast? And what is his picture doing on the front page of the newspaper?

    By the time Asamoah discovers that the school entertainment is not bad after all, it is too late for him to undo what has been done.

  • The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014

    The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 brings together the five shortlisted authors’ stories along with 12 other stories from the best new writers. Insightful, arresting and entertaining – this collection reflects the richness and range of current African writing.

    Caine Prize 2014 Shortlisted Stories:
    Phosphorescence Diane Awerbuck (South Africa)
    Chicken Efemia Chela (Ghana/Zambia)
    The Intervention Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwe)
    The Gorilla’s Apprentice Billy Kahora (Kenya)
    My Father’s Head Okwiri Oduor (Nigeria)

    The Caine Prize African Writers’ Workshop Stories 2014:
    The Lifebloom Gift Abdul Adan (Somalia/Kenya)
    The Gonjon Pin Martin Egblewogbe (Ghana)
    As A Wolf Sweating Your Mother’s Body Clifton Gachagua (Kenya)
    Pam Pam Lawrence Hoba (Zimbabwe)
    Lily in the Moonlight Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria)
    Running Elnathan John (Nigeria)
    The Murder of Ernestine Masilo Violet Masilo (Zimbabwe)
    All the Parts of Mi Isabella Matambanadzo (Zimbabwe)
    Blood Work Barbara Mhangami-Ruwende (Zimbabwe)
    The Sonneteer Philani A Nyoni (Zimbabwe)
    Eko Hotel Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria)
    Music from a Farther Room Bryony Rheam (Zimbabwe)
  • Asante Kasasua Nwoma 6 (Asante Twi)

    Suitable for children from 6 years and above, learning the Twi (Asante) language. Having books in one’s mother tongue is an essential tool in teaching young children to read.

  • Asante Kasasua Nwoma 4 (Asante Twi)

    Suitable for children from 6 years and above, learning the Twi (Asante) language. Having books in one’s mother tongue is an essential tool in teaching young children to read.

  • Hymns Unlimited

    Hymn Unlimited track list:

    1. Benedicite, Omnia Opera

    2. Anwanwa Do (Come Let Us All Unite)

    3. Anwanwa Do (Come Let Us Sing)

    4. Anwanwa Do (And Can It Be)

    5. Sing We the King

    6. Adoremus (All Creatures of Our God and King)

    7Adoremus (O Worship the King)

    8. Adoremus (Praise to the Lord)

    9. Adoremus (When Morning Gilds the Sky)

    10. Adoremus (Saviour, Blessed Saviour)

    11. Adoremus (Fairest Lord Jesus) [feat. Eyra Tamakloe]

    12. Adoremus (Crown Him with Many Crowns)

    13. Ko-Yi-Ko-Ko (O Thou Who Camest from Above)

    14. Malaika (Hark, Hark My Soul) [feat. Dieu Donnee Anyekase]

    15. Cathedral (A Safe Stronghold)

    16. Cathedral (Jesus Shall Reign)

    17. Cathedral (Be Thou My Vision)

    18. Cathedral (Begone Unbelief)

    19. Cathedral (Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By)

    20. Happy Man

    21. Altar Call (Come Sinners to the Gospel Feast)

    22. Altar Call (Hark My Soul)

    23. Altar Call (My Faith Looks up to Thee)

    Hymns Unlimited

    10.00
  • Leadership Stripped Bare

    Suitable for academics, practitioners, senior to lower-level leaders, and positional non-leaders.

    Provides some good theoretical foundation for leading, and leadership in all contexts and at every level, emphasising the centrality of leadership and the crucial nature of leadership action.

    Differentiates management from leadership, provides guidance on how to strengthen one’s leadership power, and also how to lead oneself as a foundation for leading others.

    Examines leadership in a corporate context and sheds light on the role of the leader in a team environment, using the framework of functional leadership.

    Ideal for personal leadership development, and as a leadership development text for for-profit corporates, public sector and government leaders, politicians as well as religious leaders.

  • The Boy In Love

    In what could’ve been love or infatuation, his life rose and sunk from as early as 6 years old. His life from that point on was about who loved him and who he loved: to study, eat, dream, make friends, to excel.

    Yes, why would he eat, study or excel at anything when he has had a broken heart or is deeply satisfied with an affection for a certain girl?

    30 years on and looking at Rebecca now, he can finally and clearly tell what he felt then to now. He sees beyond feelings. He sees his capacity to provide for a woman; to understand them and care for them; to reason with them and plan a life worthwhile. And he sees it not in gruesome years of waiting (amidst the impatience) but just a decision away.

    The joy to finally marry in love and with the loved was abounding. But his fear of the emotional turmoil of his past made him doubt his capacity to love and cherish this woman so.

    Only if he had had patience…

    Only if he had waited…

    Only if he had talked to someone…

    The Boy In Love

    20.00
  • Whispers of Dawn: A Book of Cherita

    With Whispers of Dawn, A Book of Cherita, Celestine Nudanu lights up the torch for Africa as the first practitioner of the minimalist poetry form, the Cherita (a Malay word for story or tale created by ai li in 1997). The first ever Cherita collection to be published in Africa, Whispers of Dawn recounts Celestine’s personal story with sublime honesty, baring leaf by leaf, her disappointments, wishes, dreams etc. and boldly spilling out love betrayed and dreams deferred, often revealing to bare bones moments and situations where others would prefer to camouflage. Celestine writes with grace and exceptional poignancy, allowing the reader to ponder over her words and reflect on her story long after the pages have been closed on this collection.

    Please listen to her and you will never be the same again.

    Adjei Agyei-Baah
    Co-Founder, African Haiku Network and Co-Editor, The Mamba Journal

  • They Touched Us for Good

    “The author gives a succinct exposé of some pillars of life that are critical for good living and personal development. Those who yearn for leadership influence cannot afford not to read this book.” — Kwabena Boadu Oku-Afari, Executive Director, African Development Bank

     

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