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Art and the Power of Goodness: A Collection of John Agyekum Kufuor (Hardcover)
**Available from 16 June 2021
FOREWORD BY GORDON BROWN, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
There is a strong correlation between art and power and in this book, Ivor Agyeman-Duah, a cultural and literary historian, looks at it from the art collection of the former President of Ghana – John Agyekum Kufuor.
From a matrilineal household in Kumasi that is connected to the visual and palace art in the ancient imperial Kingdom of Ashanti, Kufuor travelled the world from Oxford into the pantheon of great personages and power. Along the way, whether in villages in Ethiopia or among the Maasai in Kenya, across the Maghreb into Morocco, infatuation with the Persia classical period, Ottoman or Asia Minor’s remains of modern day Turkey, northern Lebanon and parts of Greater Asia, some of these acquisitions came by way of gifts and purchases.
They reflect family life and belief, ancient trade relations and routes as well as patterns of contemporary geo-politics. It could be through Benin bronze sculpture with facial stratifications or of metal smelted Malian Islamic crusaders on horseback or a herdsman from a Sahel water well.
These works, seventy of which form the basis of this book with few external ones, include resistance art in the fashion of the ‘empire fights back’ against British West African colonial conflict engagements and resultant Independence.
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OCR Investment: Creative Arts for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 6
This book is the sixth among a series of six books designed to develop learners at the Basic Schools’ creative and Innovative skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, collaborative and communicative skills.
Creative Arts at the basic school has been structured through practical learner-engaged activities to engage learners to acquire, develop and express their feelings and emotions in different ways during the learning process for effective transfer of knowledge: vertically and horizontally.
This book exposes learners to various aspects of Visual and Performing Arts; in drawing, painting, carving, music, dance, drama, etc.
The activities and approach in this book, combined with its carefully selected pictures and illustrations are expected to make teaching and learning of the subject at the basic level easier and enjoyable for both teachers and learners.
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OCR Investment: Creative Arts for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 5
This book is the fifth among a series of six books designed to develop learners at the Basic Schools’ creative and Innovative skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, collaborative and communicative skills.
Creative Arts at the basic school has been structured through practical learner-engaged activities to engage learners to acquire, develop and express their feelings and emotions in different ways during the learning process for effective transfer of knowledge: vertically and horizontally.
This book exposes learners to various aspects of Visual and Performing Arts; in drawing, painting, carving, music, dance, drama, etc.
The activities and approach in this book, combined with its carefully selected pictures and illustrations are expected to make teaching and learning of the subject at the basic level easier and enjoyable for both teachers and learners.
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OCR Investment: Creative Arts for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 4
This book is the fourth among a series of six books designed to develop learners at the Basic Schools’ creative and Innovative skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, collaborative and communicative skills.
Creative Arts at the basic school has been structured through practical learner-engaged activities to engage learners to acquire, develop and express their feelings and emotions in different ways during the learning process for effective transfer of knowledge: vertically and horizontally.
This book exposes learners to various aspects of Visual and Performing Arts; in drawing, painting, carving, music, dance, drama, etc.
The activities and approach in this book, combined with its carefully selected pictures and illustrations are expected to make teaching and learning of the subject at the basic level easier and enjoyable for both teachers and learners.
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OCR Investment: Creative Arts for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 3
This book is the third among a series of six books designed to develop learners at the Basic Schools’ creative and Innovative skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, collaborative and communicative skills.
Creative Arts at the basic school has been structured through practical learner-engaged activities to engage learners to acquire, develop and express their feelings and emotions in different ways during the learning process for effective transfer of knowledge: vertically and horizontally.
This book exposes learners to various aspects of Visual and Performing Arts; in drawing, painting, carving, music, dance, drama, etc.
The activities and approach in this book, combined with its carefully selected pictures and illustrations are expected to make teaching and learning of the subject at the basic level easier and enjoyable for both teachers and learners.
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OCR Investment: Creative Arts for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 2
This book is the second among a series of six books designed to develop learners at the Basic Schools’ creative and Innovative skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, collaborative and communicative skills.
Creative Arts at the basic school has been structured through practical learner-engaged activities to engage learners to acquire, develop and express their feelings and emotions in different ways during the learning process for effective transfer of knowledge: vertically and horizontally.
This book exposes learners to various aspects of Visual and Performing Arts; in drawing, painting, carving, music, dance, drama, etc.
The activities and approach in this book, combined with its carefully selected pictures and illustrations are expected to make teaching and learning of the subject at the basic level easier and enjoyable for both teachers and learners.
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OCR Investment: Creative Arts for Primary Schools Learner’s Book 1
This book is the first among a series of six books designed to develop learners at the Basic Schools’ creative and Innovative skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, collaborative and communicative skills.
Creative Arts at the basic school has been structured through practical learner-engaged activities to engage learners to acquire, develop and express their feelings and emotions in different ways during the learning process for effective transfer of knowledge: vertically and horizontally.
This book exposes learners to various aspects of Visual and Performing Arts; in drawing, painting, carving, music, dance, drama, etc.
The activities and approach in this book, combined with its carefully selected pictures and illustrations are expected to make teaching and learning of the subject at the basic level easier and enjoyable for both teachers and learners.
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Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited (Photo Book, Hardcover)
Ghana: An African Portrait by the American photographer Paul Strand was published in 1963 at the request of Kwame Nkrumah. It became a classic but is now out of print. Over 40 years after that landmark work, and coinciding with the 50th anniversary celebrations of Ghana’s independence, the country is documented again as it enters the 21st century.
With more than 150 photographs, this book presents Ghana at a historic moment in time remembering its past and tradition, while looking ahead to a bright future. Six photographers with six points of view of working present a unique portrait of the country, through these photographs. From Accra to Bolatanga, and Elmina to Aflao, these are images of a country that is changing yet still retains much of its traditional character.
There are photographs of bead makers, wood carvers, kente weavers and coffin makers; and of Ghana’s unique fishing industry, its historic slave forts, outdoor markets, and the diverse religious community. And at the same time, a country poised to compete in world markets is seen through Accra’s rising skyline buildings and Tema’s modern port facilities. Abena Busia’s essay provides a capsule history of the country.
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Diana: Her New Life
The publication in 1992 of Andrew Morton’s number-one national bestseller, Diana: Her True Story, shook the British royal family to its very foundations. The book’s many revelations – that Prince Charles had been having a long-term affair, that the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales had been a sham, that the Princess had been suffering from an eating disorder and had made several halfhearted suicide attempts – were initially greeted with disbelief. But as time passed, it became clear that the book was, as its title claimed, Diana’s true story, especially when the couple announced their separation in December 1992. When Prince Charles eventually admitted his adultery on television, he put the final seal of confirmation on Andrew Morton’s claims. Diana’s friends were hopeful that the separation from Charles, which ended years of a torturous existence, would bring Diana the freedom to find happiness in a new role. But has she? With her marriage in limbo and her children only occasionally by her side, Diana’s position in the royal family is one of increasing isolation. Diana: Her New Life chronicles the secret battles that have raged behind closed doors, and Diana’s constant frustration as she endeavors to break free from the restrictions of her semi-detached royal life. Again with unprecedented access to some of Diana’s closest friends and advisers, Andrew Morton is able to strip away the royal propaganda and reveal how Diana, who became a princess before she had reached maturity, is at last learning to become a woman in her own right rather than a puppet of the palace. Andrew Morton exposes the infighting and intrigue behind this most sensational royal crisis, as well as Diana’s private thoughts on her retirement from public life, remarriage, the men in her life, and the grooming of Prince William for his future role.
₵60.00Diana: Her New Life
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Charles: Victim or Villain
Charles, Prince of Wales, has long been the subject of intense scrutiny and speculation. Everyone assumes that they know the story of the Prince’s life and his failed marriage to Diana. Diana herself told the world in no uncertain terms about her unhappiness with the British Royal Family, leaving no doubt as to whom she held responsible.
But Diana’s version was only part of the story.
Penny Junor’s new biography, Charles: Victim or Villain?, reveals the startling complexities and contradictions of a man born to a position of unique privilege. On the occasion of the Prince’s fiftieth birthday it provides fresh perspective and entirely revolutionizes the way we think about Charles, his marriage and his mistress.
Drawing on the memories, experiences and observations of those closest to the Prince, the Princess and Camilla — some of whom have never spoken before — Penny Junor is in an unrivaled position to explode and explain the popular myths. Her analysis of the Prince’s marriage to Diana, a vulnerable but difficult young woman, and his relationship with Camilla, earthy and independent, results in a provocative new portrait of the man who will be King.
₵60.00₵85.00Charles: Victim or Villain
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Diana in Pursuit of Love
Diana in Pursuit of Love includes previously unpublished details from the Diana-Morton tapes, it is based on wide-ranging research, and new and exclusive interviews. The definitive book on Diana, Pricess of Wales’s last years, by the biographer she herself chose. When Andrew Morton’s world-famous biography, Diana: Her True Story was first published, it caused a media frenzy, severely jolted the royal family and the Palace hierarchy, and shook the British Establishment to its foundations. Later revealed as having been written with the Princess’s full co-operation, this world bestseller is now widely regarded as her official biography. Yet, it was not the full story, nor could it have been, given the circumstances at the time. This is even more apparent in the light of the events that have occurred since her death, which have been played out under the harsh gaze of the media, once again catapulting Diana’s name back into the spotlight. Figures such as her sometime lover James Hewitt, her butler Paul Burrell and Prince Charles’s valet Michael Fawcett have emerged, while intriguing comments that Diana made to Morton in taped conversations, and which have never been published, become extremely important in view of subsequent events. Friends, advisers and colleagues, interviewed now, more than six years after her death, feel a far greater freedom in speaking of her than once they did. In what is bound to be seen as the definitive study of the Princess in the most crucial period of her short life, Diana: In Pursuit of Love provides the last word on one of the best-loved figures of our era.
₵65.00₵85.00Diana in Pursuit of Love
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Highlife Time 3
Highlife is Ghana’s most important modern home grown dance-music that has its roots in traditional music infused with outside influences coming from Europe and the Americas. Although the word ‘highlife’ was not coined until the 1920s, its origins can be traced back to the regimental brass bands, elite-dance orchestras and maritime guitar and accordion groups of the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. Highlife is, therefore, one of Africa’s earliest popular music genres.
The book traces the origins of highlife music to the present – and include information on palmwine music, adaha brass bands, concert party guitar bands and dance bands, right up to off-shoots such as Afro-rock, Afrobeat, burger highlife, gospel highlife, hiphop highlife (i.e. hiplife) and contemporary highlife.
The book also includes chapters on the traditional background or roots of highlife, the entrance of women into the Ghanaian highlife profession and the biographies of numerous Ghanaian (and some Nigerian) highlife musicians, composers and producers. It also touches on the way highlife played a role in Ghana’s independence struggle and the country’s quest for a national – and indeed Pan-African – identity.The book also provides information on music styles that are related to highlife, or can be treated as cousins of highlife, such as the maringa of Sierra Leone, the early guitar styles of Liberia, the juju music of Nigeria the makossa of the Cameroon/ It also touches on the popular music of Ghana’s Francophone neighbours.
There is also a section on the Black Diasporic input into highlife, through to the impact of African American and Caribbean popular music styles like calypsos, jazz, soul, reggae, disco, hiphop and rap and dancehall. that have been integrated into the highlife fold. Thus, highlife has not only influenced other African countries but is also an important cultural bridge uniting the peoples of Africa and its Diaspora.
₵250.00Highlife Time 3
₵250.00