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Comedy (3)
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Theatre (5)
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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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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 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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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 -
The Son of Umbele: A Play in Three Acts
“…the contents of the play revealed a brilliant mind at work in an attempt to deal with some basic ambiguities of human existence,” wrote Julius S. Scott Jnr. of Spelma College-Atlanta, when he saw an American production of The Son of Umbele.
Indeed, this Ghana National Book Award winner has endeared itself to theatre enthusiasts as well as scholars since its premier at the Ghana Drama studio in 1972.
Bill Marshall’s sensitivity to realities of the human existence and the conflicts of the mind is eloquently manifest in his writing, be it a novel, a TV Drama or a Stage play.
The author appeared on the Ghanaian Arts scene in 1966 when he joined GBC-TV and helped to establish the Drama Department of the Television Station. He worked with the Corporation for several years, writing, production and directing plays for Television, He subsequently left for the private sector, working for Lintas Ghana Limited and in his own company, Studio Africain. In 1984, he was appointed the Director of the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) in Ghana.
Other published works by the author are Novels: Bukom, Brother Man, The Oyster Man, Uncle Blanko’s Chair; Plays: Shadows of an Eagle, Stranger to Innocence Asana, The Crows and Other plays.
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The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Popular Classics)
Around the World in Eighty Days, one of his most popular books, was first serialized in late 1872 in a French newspaper. An instant success, the novel details the round-the-world adventures of the affluent Englishman Phileas Fogg who, accompanied by his French valet Passepartout, sets out on an impossible journey for a wager of £20,000. This groundbreaking novel has since been adapted numerous times for the theatre, television, radio and cinema.
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Meɖe Ablotsidela (Ewe)
This play is about the difficulties of two lovers eager to get married. Dadzi, the principal character, is a young man just back home from Britain with a university degree. He has a lucrative job and is well placed in society. He falls in love with Esinam, the well-bred daughter of a devout but stiff minister of religion. The preacher, at first, would have none of Dadzi’s advances to his daughter because he considered the suitor too unreligious. Later, however, he had cause to revise his opinion and later sanctioned the union.
₵40.00Meɖe Ablotsidela (Ewe)
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African Dance in Ghana: Contemporary Transformations
In African Dance in Ghana: Contemporary Transformations, Professor Francis Nii-Yartey tells the story of the development of dance – both traditional and contemporary – since Ghana’s independence. The book charts the people and events that influenced new forms of dance and their impact on art, culture and national identity. The dances that emerge combine centuries-old tradition with a yearning for original expression and innovation.
Nii-Yartey is uniquely equipped to tell the story, having been directly involved through his directorship of the Department of Dance at the University of Ghana and his involvement in establishing the Ghana Dance Ensemble and the Noyam African Dance Institute.
The second part of the book gives detailed choreographic instructions for 18 dance pieces, most of which were written, choreographed and directed by the author. They form an invaluable legacy to his career.
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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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Tɔgbui Kpeglo II (Ewe)
Tɔgbui Kpeglo II (Chief Kpeglo II) is a play. It narrates how impudent Tɔgbui Kpeglo was and how unwisely he administered the affairs of his State — the Kokoroko State. The deplorable character of this chief made him unpopular among his subjects. Therefore, the people, with the support of the king-makers, preferred destoolment charges against him. The great Chief committed suicide immediately after his destoolment.
₵38.00Tɔgbui Kpeglo II (Ewe)
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Takɔdaa Bie (Dagaare)
The book tells the story of a man from the North West of Ghana from birth to death. The central character was born on a day which was considered unfavourable in the eyes of the local upholders of native customs; a day on which the senior gods had their day off.
₵35.00Takɔdaa Bie (Dagaare)
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Zanne Fo Kɔkɔre (Dagaare)
ZANNE FO KƆKƆRE waa la gane n ba Saeed A. Faruk naŋ sɛge ka ka o meŋ soŋ bibiiri a Dagaare/Waale zannoo a sakue poɔ. A gane kɔlage la sɛgebie, yelbipeelɛ, yelbie nyaabo, yelbie gaŋgyere, yelŋmaa, yelgbɔge, gane sɛgebo, senselɛ, naaloŋ, kyiire, dannoŋ, yaabaa, bibiiri deɛnɛɛ, kultaa ne wɛltaa ane ataa. Ƞmaa lɛ, a gane waa ŋa ɔre-kunkuni, ka fo maŋ wele sɛre kyɛ nyɛ moɔma.
A gane ŋa soma la a ko JHS, SHS, Kolaagyi ane Karemamine ane neɛzaa naŋ boɔra ka Dagaare/Waale kɔkɔre zannoo do saa. O la soma la a ko noba naŋ zanna ka ba wa leɛ karemamine. Yeli naŋ vɛŋ ka ZANNE FO KƆKƆRE gane ŋa de zu o taaba zuŋ la N ba Saeed naŋ kyaane a yebizuri mine ne naasaale. A dori kaŋa meŋ zaa baaraaŋ, meŋa nyonnoo soorebie maŋ be la be.
₵35.00Zanne Fo Kɔkɔre (Dagaare)
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A Play of Giants
Described by the author as a ‘Fantasia on Aminian theme’, Wole Soyinka’s new play presents a savage portrait of a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York. The resemblance between them and recent historical characters is only too pronounced.
₵30.00A Play of Giants
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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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