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King Alboury Cooks the Best Jollof (Africa’s Little Kings & Queens)
Age Range: 3 – 8 years
A must-have for every child’s library. Loved by children around the world and teaches them the importance of kindness and community.
King Alboury Cooks the Best Jollof is a fictional story inspired by King Alboury Ndiaye, the last King of the Jollof Kingdom in Senegal. A must-have for every child’s library.
In this story, King Alboury loves to cook and his favourite meal to make is his famous jollof rice. His ancestors invented the recipe, and so he is the only one who knows the secret. However, King Alboury has a problem, his troublesome neighbours, the Chuchus people. Every time the King cooks his special Jollof rice, their tummies start to rumble so loud that they become jealous. Rumour has it that they are plotting against the Jollof Kingdom, but don’t worry, King Alboury has a plan!
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Steps for the Progress of the Black Race: Guides for Black Man’s Redemption (Hardcover)
The book talks about Black history and traces it to when Blacks were successful. The author shows how the current difficult condition of Blacks in the world is surmountable if they will do the right thing. That right thing is Blacks changing their behaviour for the better. The author believes that everybody’s condition in which he/she finds himself or herself can be changed if the necessary conduct is applied. The book encourages Blacks not to give up in the quest to make their conditions better.
The narrative concludes with the biographies, inventions and achievements of some prominent Blacks across the ages and across the world.
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Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities (African Humanities Series)
Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities by Kwesi Yankah is the first title in the newly established African Humanities Association (AHA) publication series.
By integrating his own biography into a critique of the global politics of knowledge production, Yankah, through a collection of essays, interrogates critical issues confronting the Humanities that spawn intellectual hegemonies and muffle African voices. Using the example of Ghana, he brings under scrutiny, amongst others, endemic issues of academic freedom, gender inequities, the unequal global academic order, and linguistic imperialism in language policies in governance.
In the face of these challenges, the author deftly navigates the complex terrain of indigenous knowledge and language in the context of democratic politics, demonstrating that agency can be liberatory when emphasising indigenous knowledge, especially expressed through the idiom of local languages and symbols, including Ananse, the protean spider, folk hero in Ghana and most parts of the pan-African world.
“Fascinating snapshots from an engaged scholarly life in Africa, valuable as an archival resource for the understanding of this period of higher education in Africa.” – John Higgins, Arderne Chair in Literature, Department of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town
“This book is unique and gives a powerful rendition of the state of the Humanities in Africa (with Ghana as a case in point). It grapples with some of the pertinent issues dogging the Humanities in Africa. It comments on the Humanities scholarship in Africa, and subtly throws a challenge for future scholarship. It draws on African traditions, communal heritage, and governance in discussing the role and place of the Humanities in Africa. It also brings into the analysis the ever-changing imperatives and modernity in re-configuring African Humanities.” – Mark Benge Okot, Head of Department, Literature, Makerere University, Uganda
“Beyond the Political Spider’ effectively draws, in a unique fashion, from literature, history, linguistics and other cognate disciplines in the African Humanities.” – Sati Umaru Fwatshak, Department of History, University of Jos, Nigeria
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Tour Guiding: The Ultimate Guide to Theory and Practice
**Available from 16 October, 2021
Guides are tourism professionals who lead their guests through the most interesting parts of their region. It is their task to engage visitors and to help interpret the sights that they visit. They please tourists by telling interesting but relevant narratives and respond in proactive ways to their complaints and requests. Guides are trained to always have enough knowledge and insight about the subject of the tour and ensure the safety and satisfaction of their guests.
In this handy resource book, two seasoned practitioners have combined their working experience of a lifetime. What makes this book priceless is that it is enriched by over two decades of guide training experience as well as engagements with colleague guides, tourism professionals and a cross-section of tourists.
“The scope of coverage is vast and will be very useful as a general guidebook for any reader seeking access to our history, geography and our rich cultural heritage.” – Mrs. Stella W. Appenteng, CEO, Apstar Tours Limited
“Tour guiding is a bridging process around which the tourism experience revolves. This book comes to edify our tour guides on the substance and mechanics of their profession. It comes at a time when the industry has become more dynamic and in need of accurate, adequate, culture-nuanced interpretations.” – Tata Nkunu Akyea, Tourism Consultant & Tour Guide Extraordinaire
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Akiki Learns Healthy Habits
Age Range: 3 – 9 years
Akiki learns Healthy Habits with Activities and Recipes.
Enjoy this book as Akiki discovers and learns ‘a healthy body is a happy body’.
This book has been designed with fun engagement activities to encourage healthy eating behaviour and easy recipes that will be exciting to add to school snacks.
₵45.00Akiki Learns Healthy Habits
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Where Have All the Rivers Gone?
Suitable for upper primary pupils and children between 9 and 11 years
Sponsored by the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency, to raise awareness of environmental issues amongst children, this story follows the adventures of Aku and Serwa who go on holiday to Zimbabwe, visiting Victoria Falls and the Kariba Dam. They learn about the crucial importance of rivers for clean drinking water, about fish conservation, and about all the proper and improper uses of rivers and natural water sources.
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A Panorama of Ghana’s Heritage: Una mirada al patrimonio de Ghana – in English & Spanish (Photo Book, Hardcover)
Ghana, with Forts and Castles inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, is the African country with the oldest and greatest number of slave Castles dotted along the whole length of its coastline from which slaves were shipped. The capture and forced transfer, over the centuries, of millions of Africans to other parts of the world, along with their cultural traditions, skills, ideas and general heritage, not only had a profound impact on the African continent, but ultimately left a major mark in the formation and shape of cultures and civilizations of the world.
Ghana, con fuertes y castillos inscritos en la Lista del Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO, es el país africano con los más antiguos y númerosos fuertes situados a lo largo de la costa, desde donde los esclavos eran embarcados. La captura y el traslado forzoso, a lo largo de los siglos, de millones de africanos a otras partes del mundo, junto con sus tradiciones culturales, habilidades, ideas y herencia en general, no sólo tuvo un impacto profundo en el continente africano, sino que dejó en última instancia una huella profunda en la génesis y forma de las culturas y civilizaciones del mundo.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-106) and index.
English and Spanish.
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Philosophy, Culture and Vision: African Perspectives
Believing that the intellectual enterprise called philosophy is essentially a part of the cultural as well as historical experience of a people, that the concepts and problems that occupy the attention of philosophers placed in different cultural spaces or historical times generally derive directly from those spaces and times, and that philosophy, in turn, has been most relevant to the development of human cultures, the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye gives reflective attention in this book to some of the concepts and problems that in his view feature most prominently in the contemporary African cultural, social, political, and moral experience. Such concepts and problems include the following: political legitimacy, development, culture and the pursuit of science and technology, political corruption, democracy, representation and the politics of inclusion, the status of cultural values in national orientation, understanding globalization, and others. It is these topics that are covered in the essays collected in this book.
The unrelenting pursuit of the speculative activity by the philosopher in most cases eventuates in normative proposals; these normative proposals often embody a vision-a vision of an ideal human society in terms of its values, politics, and culture. Vision, understood here, has human-not supernatural or divine-origination and involvement and requires action by human beings in order for it to come into reality. A vision may derive from sustained critical evaluation of a culture or some elements of it. Gyekye attempts an articulation of the visions of the essays contained in the book.
Even though philosophical ideas and concerns are originally inspired by and worked out in a cultural milieu, it does not necessarily follow, Gyekye strongly believes, that the relevance of those ideas and insights is to be tetheed to the cultures that produced them. For, more often than not, the relevance of those ideas, or at least some of them, transcends the confines of their own times and cultures and can be appreciated by other societies, or cultures, or generational epochs. This trans-cultural or trans-epochal or meta-contextual appeal or attraction of philosophical ideas and insights spawned by a particular culture or cluster of cultures or in specific historical times is to be put down to our common human nature-including our basic human desires and aspirations. Thus, most of the essays published here should be of interest to the global community-i.e., to cultures and societies beyond the African.
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The Akans of Ghana: Their Customs, History and Institutions
Supremacist historians have tended to give slanting presentations to African history as mere accounts of conflicts and wars between tribes.
The author, deploring the situation – and agreeing with the African proverb that “until lions have their own historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter” – embarked on the work of the role of the African Historian.
In this book he provides basic background information about Ghana in the first chapters and utilizes the remaining to:
1. Identify the Akans among Ghanaians
2. Discuss Akan Kingdoms, past and present and
3. Treat the Akan cultures (their way of life) from procreation, through marriage to death as well as their religion.
The book is targeted at:
i. Akans who wish to be reminded about their heritage so that they do not lose their 1dentity in the fast moving world.
ii. Non-Akans (including foreigners) who seek to learn about the Akans.
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Kayim’s Quest for Good Fortune: Coins of Gold
Age Range: 5 – 10 years
Kayim can’t wait to find his fortune to become a rich man!
While on holiday, Kayim’s mom sends him off to Bangiba where he goes in search of his good fortune. Let’s find out how Paa Paying, Yaro and Uncle Kweku all help him find good fortune.
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Bookset: Spiderman Tales & Red Oak Supplementary Readers (8 books)
Age Range: 5 – 10 years
8 books for children between 5 and 10 years. Including 2 exciting titles from the famous British/Ghanaian author Peggy Appiah and a delightfully-illustrated collection of 7 Ananse stories by Adolika Nenah Sowah.
The titles in this set are:
- King of the Trees
- Kofi and the Crow
- The Harmattan Man
- The Contest and Other Spiderman Tales
- The End of a Traitor
- Obenewa
- Ama’s Dream
- Afua and the Mouse
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OCR: Victory History for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 5
History is an important subject that helps people to learn about their past. This helps to understand the factors that have shaped our lives. History helps people to know their past, their culture and the values that society needs for development.
The general aim of the History Curriculum is to help learners become literate and very good problem solvers. This will help them to think creatively and be able to grow and contribute to the development of the nation.
This textbook has been designed to help learners develop the right skills and attitudes to lead Ghana into a developed nation.
The textbook is based on the new History curriculum issued by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) of Ministry of Education, 2019.
It covers the following areas:
STRAND 1: History as a Subject
STRAND 2: My Country Ghana
STRAND 3: Europeans in Ghana
STRAND 6: Independent Ghana
The textbook uses a lot of pictures, illustrations and activities that make learning interesting and easy.
It is our hope that both learners and teachers will find this book useful in teaching and learning the subject.
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OCR: Victory History for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 4
History is an important subject that helps people to learn about their past. This helps to understand the factors that have shaped our lives. History helps people to know their past, their culture and the values that society needs for development.
The general aim of the History Curriculum is to help learners become literate and very good problem solvers. This will help them to think creatively and be able to grow and contribute to the development of the nation.
This textbook has been designed to help learners develop the right skills and attitudes to lead Ghana into a developed nation.
The textbook is based on the new History curriculum issued by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) of Ministry of Education, 2019.
It covers the following areas:
STRAND 1: History as a Subject
STRAND 2: My Country Ghana
STRAND 3: Europeans in Ghana
STRAND 6: Independent Ghana
The textbook uses a lot of pictures, illustrations and activities that make learning interesting and easy.
It is our hope that both learners and teachers will find this book useful in teaching and learning the subject.
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OCR: Victory History for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 3
History is an important subject that helps people to learn about their past. This helps to understand the factors that have shaped our lives. History helps people to know their past, their culture and the values that society needs for development.
The general aim of the History Curriculum is to help learners become literate and very good problem solvers. This will help them to think creatively and be able to grow and contribute to the development of the nation.
This textbook has been designed to help learners develop the right skills and attitudes to lead Ghana into a developed nation.
The textbook is based on the new History curriculum issued by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) of Ministry of Education, 2019.
It covers the following areas:
STRAND 1: History as a Subject
STRAND 2: My Country Ghana
STRAND 3: Europeans in Ghana
STRAND 6: Independent Ghana
The textbook uses a lot of pictures, illustrations and activities that make learning interesting and easy.
It is our hope that both learners and teachers will find this book useful in teaching and learning the subject.
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OCR: Victory History for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 2
History is an important subject that helps people to learn about their past. This helps to understand the factors that have shaped our lives. History helps people to know their past, their culture and the values that society needs for development.
The general aim of the History Curriculum is to help learners become literate and very good problem solvers. This will help them to think creatively and be able to grow and contribute to the development of the nation.
This textbook has been designed to help learners develop the right skills and attitudes to lead Ghana into a developed nation.
The textbook is based on the new History curriculum issued by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) of Ministry of Education, 2019.
It covers the following areas:
STRAND 1: History as a Subject
STRAND 2: My Country Ghana
STRAND 3: Europeans in Ghana
STRAND 6: Independent Ghana
The textbook uses a lot of pictures, illustrations and activities that make learning interesting and easy.
It is our hope that both learners and teachers will find this book useful in teaching and learning the subject.
₵27.00