• The Compulsive Gambler

    Frank, a brilliant and hardworking young man who just completed high school, had always aspired to become a medical doctor.

    The once hardworking and trustworthy Frank had now turned into a serial gambler. He would defraud and dupe anyone at the slightest chance to get something to gamble. Upon all this, Frank held his reputation in high esteem and would not sacrifice it for anything. What was so fascinating about his cheating lifestyle was how his shenanigans were usually well orchestrated. He would always find a way to squeeze money out of people and still receive laudatory for it.

    How did he get involved with gambling in the first place? Was he able to perpetrate his furtivity on all the innocent victims and get away with it? What could have caused the sudden change in Frank’s character?

    Frank, starting to turn over a new leaf after realizing he was treading the wrong course, managed to obtain a scholarship to study medicine in Cuba due to his intelligence and hard work as a pupil-teacher. What happened to his scholarship? Will he become that medical doctor?

  • 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:

    1. King of the Trees
    2. Kofi and the Crow
    3. The Harmattan Man
    4. The Contest and Other Spiderman Tales
    5. The End of a Traitor
    6. Obenewa
    7. Ama’s Dream
    8. Afua and the Mouse
  • In His Journey to Fame

    “In His Journey to Fame” is a captivating story set somewhere in Africa, where polygamy is a rule, making male children kings is a law and patrilineal inheritance is a norm. It is the first of the trilogy that include ‘Pastors on the Move” and “When women go crazy”.

    A young prince is born into a family of nine adult princesses, who also have ambitions to ascend the ultimate crown when their father dies. Ably supported by their mothers, these princesses hatch snares for the young prince in order to eliminate him.

    The struggles, trauma, hardships, treachery, deceit and death are beautifully mace and put in a matrix where both the King and the heir apparent died in the process, leaving the nine princesses to battle it out with the young daughter of the prince in their quest to occupy the powerful stool.

    In the end it is an all women affair to break the rules, laws, norms and finally tradition.

  • The Contest and Other Spiderman Tales

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    2nd Prize, Ghana Association of Writers (GAW) Efua Sutherland Children’s Storybook Award 2021

    For hundreds of years, the African story of Ananse has been told to delight societies around the world.

    Cunning, daring and sometimes diabolic, this traditional fireside hero remains ingrained in cultures.
    In today’s digital world of smart solutions, Adolika Nenah Sowah conjures seven sizzling stories of this trickster in a beautifully curated volume.
    And as matters turn out, Ananse is still full of life, ever scheming and smart…or is he?
    Caution: Not only children will enjoy this!
  • Ananse and the Pig

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    Ananse moves into a new neighbourhood and makes friends with Prako, the Pig. They help each other in many ways until there is a famine and the two friends go hunting early one morning…

  • When Animals Complain

    Age Range: 5 – 8 years

    It was a ‘no holds barred’ session at the enlightenment meeting as all the animals therein assembled aired their grievances against man and railed against his perceived ingratitude and numerous wrongs.

    “I clean all the mess that man makes and yet he looks down in me,” said the vulture. “Man copied our secrets to build submarines so they can travel under water,” the dolphin and other fishes added.

    These and many others were the complaints raised against Man.

    Funny and fascinating…guaranteed you will learn a lot about some unique abilities of animals.

     

  • Candid English Magazine (Time to Read, Time to Explore) – Issue No: 001

    Age Range: KG, Primary and JHS Students

    Welcome to the maiden edition of the Candid English Magazine. This exciting magazine was born out of a dream to see the English language rise to its best level in the Ghanaian society. It must be a great joy to see the very first edition.

    The Candid English Magazine is designed to present to the public good literature and reading materials that would be useful to both the young and the old. It is a magazine that can be picked up at any time to find answers to some nagging grammar questions or any information pertaining to the English language.

    Teachers would find the CEM useful. It would provide them with reading pieces and grammatical facts that would help boost their confidence and give them absolute control over the class.

    Each edition of the CEM comes with interesting stories, drama, poetry, grammar facts, literature, writing guides, tests and questions that would help one to think and come up with creative pieces. Where questions are given, answers to the questions would be provided in the next edition so that those who attempt the questions can compare their answers and see their strengths.

    There are also many games such as puzzles, riddles, anagrams, palindromes and mazes, all of which are designed to provide interludes and also to help students test their level of intelligence.

    Welcome once again. I know we are going to have a wonderful time together. Enjoy!

    In this maiden edition:

    • Exclusive Interview with the National Best Teacher
    • Adventures of a One-Cedi Note
    • One-on-One with Ghana’s Englishman
    • In Search of My Father
    • The Adventures of Kwadede
    • Ananse and The Magic Basket
    • A Dying Man’s Note
    • And Many More
  • Bookset: African Folktale Series (8 books)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years
    In these beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktales with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.

  • The Princess Who Married the Evil Spirit (African Folktale Series)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    In this beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktale with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.

  • The Price of Jealousy – Version One: A Nigerian Folktale (African Folktale Series)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    In this beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktale with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.

  • Animals in the Midst of Famine: A Nigerian Folktale (African Folktale Series)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    In this beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktale with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.

  • Ananse Challenges the Powerful King: A Ghanaian Folktale (African Folktale Series)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    In this beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktale with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.

  • God’s Challenge to Wise People: A Ghanaian Folktale (African Folktale Series)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    In this beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktale with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.

  • Ananse Finally Meets His Match and Another Tale from Africa (African Folktale Series)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    In this beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktale with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.

  • The Boy Who Cut Off the Elephant’s Tail: A Ghanaian Folktale (African Folktale Series)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    In this beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktale with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.

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