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Comedy (3)
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Theatre (5)
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Edufa – A Play
“Ask the town. They know who Edufa is and what he’s worth. They can count you out my value in the houses that eat because I live. They rise in deference from their chairs when they say my name. And can a man allow himself to lose grip on that?”
Edufa’s obsession with maintaining his position of privilege leads him to barter his wife’s life against loss of prestige.
Efua T. Sutherland did a great deal to encourage the theatre in Ghana. She began the Ghana Experimental Theatre and the Ghana Drama Studio, and wrote many plays for adults and children, including The Marriage of Anansewa.
₵55.00Edufa – A Play
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The Prince and the Slave – A Play
This historic, award-winning play is set in Wakumey, a kingdom on the West African Coast in the late 18th century. The drama explores the internal tensions and disruptions that rock a community in an era when dealing in live human cargo was the order of the day. “How can there be a kingdom without slaves?” is the mantra for King Dogali and his council of elders. However, when romance sneaks in through a most inappropriate quarter, the very centre of royal power comes face-to-face with the visceral effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.The Prince and the Slave reveals not only the inner workings of the practice but also the psychology of both the slave raider and the enslaved.The Prince and the Slave has been performed at Accra, Cape Coast, Kumasi and a few universities and secondary schools across Ghana.₵50.00 -
Tahinta: A Rhythm Play for Children (With QR Code for Audio)
Tahinta is a story with a beat. It is about a boy went fishing in the River Birim. He set his fish-trap in the water. He cast his net but when he drew it out, it was empty. He began to look unhappy. But just when he was getting ready to go home, something came walking across the river. You will find out what it was.
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Odoi Diŋ: Legɔŋ Maŋtsɛ (Ga)
Odoi Diŋ-Legɔŋ Maŋtsɛ is a play about the Legon Maŋtsɛ.
₵24.00Odoi Diŋ: Legɔŋ Maŋtsɛ (Ga)
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Anowa
Based on the old Ghanaian legend this is the story of a young women who decides, against her parents wishes, to marry the man she loves. After many trials and tribulations the couple amass a fortune, but Anowa realizes that something, somewhere is wrong.This edition of Ama Ata Aidoo’s well-known play has been specially developed for JSS pupils to use in preparation for BECE. It contains:- Complete text of the play
- Introductory notes that develop pupils’ skills in literary criticism
- Notes following each part of the play
- Questions and activities
- BECE exam-style questions covering the whole play
₵55.00Anowa
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The Black Hermit (African Writers Series, AWS51)
In this play, Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, ponders whether or not he should return to his people. Or should he continue to be a black hermit in the town? Amidst the backdrop of a politically torn country, Remi himself is torn between his sense of tribalism and nationalism. This struggle runs deep, as he finds it at the heart of his afflictions between himself, his marriage and familial relations, and his greater sense of obligations to his people and the country. The overwhelming nature of these problems drives him into isolation as a black hermit. His self-imposed exile into the city leads him to find contentment in the Jane, his new lover, and nightly clubbing. However, after he is lobbied to return to the tribe, he must now confront the demons of his past.
The Black Hermit was the first published East African play in English. The play was published in a small edition by Makerere University Press in 1963, and republished in Heinemann’s African Writers Series in 1968.
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Otswa Tɛ Otswa Ohiɛnaa (Ga)
“Otswa Tɛ Otswa Ohiɛnaa” is a play about a young man who took someone to court for libel only to find that the defendant is no other than his own father.
₵24.00Otswa Tɛ Otswa Ohiɛnaa (Ga)
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Ewɔ Moya Na Fiagã Agɔkɔli (Ewe)
This book ‘ Ewɔ Moya Na Fiagã Agɔkɔli’ is a drama about the migration of the ancestors of the Eʋes from Ŋɔtsiẽ in the Republic of Togo.The decision to move out of Ŋɔtsiẽ was necessitated by the excessive wickedness displayed against them by Fiagã Agɔkɔli,
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Hlɔbiabia (Ewe)
Hlɔbiabia (Vengeance) is a story of a body who suffered a great deal of injustice in the hands of many people including his own teachers and close friends. Torments he suffered made him vow to repay mankind in the same way he had been treated.
By paying people in their own coins, he managed to go overseas where he obtained many degrees. Later, however, when he returned home, he rendered good service to people and in addition confessed every wrong he had done and pleaded with the bench for a fitting punishment as an atonement for his sins.
₵30.00Hlɔbiabia (Ewe)
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Obeede (Akuapem Twi)
“Obeede” is an imaginary story based on the traditions, culture, customs, and the mode of the life of the Akan people.
The book reveals the thoughts, beliefs, and superstitions of the Akan people in connection with their gods and life in the unseen world of our past ancestors.
The “hero” (Kwabena Boakye) who was later known as “Obeede” represents the Akan “Ntorɔ” or “Bogya” a hunter, mysteriously fell into a deep coma and found himself in the unseen world. After many horrid experiences and adventures in that unseen world, he was later roused from his coma.
The story is written in a beautiful language with rare words used in catchy phrases and idiomatic expressions
₵38.00Obeede (Akuapem Twi)
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Yɛngangnaa (Dagaare)
This is a popular folklore that has been dramatized.It tells the story of a young man whose name is such that its meaning touches on the integrity of the Chief of his village. The Chief, on discovering that, tries many times to kill the young man. On each occasion the young man outwits him. In the end, the Chief’s son is killed instead.
₵25.00Yɛngangnaa (Dagaare)
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Egya Yɛ Sunsum (Mfantse)
An advice to the Youth to give due respect to elders and the need to prepare a “Will” before one’s death.
₵40.00Egya Yɛ Sunsum (Mfantse)
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Ɔba Bɔne Dane (Akuapem Twi)
The boy Nomako was an only child ,pampered and spoilt. Life got difficult for him as he grew up.He was eventually involved with criminals. After serving a term in prison he turned over a new leaf ,became rich through honest, hard work and died a respected citizen,
₵18.00Ɔba Bɔne Dane (Akuapem Twi)
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