• Adisa: A Lost Hope

    Age Range: 8 – 12 years

    After years of trying to conceive, Mr and Mrs Salifu are blessed with a beautiful and intelligent daughter, Adisa. All is well until she meets the deceitful Ben Brisco who takes her life on a downward turn.

    This short story summarises the vulnerability of many young girls and women who are often lured into unhealthy relationships and are trafficked to work under horrible circumstances, sometimes even as sex slaves. The damage done these people is sometimes irreparable and can mar them for life.

    The story emphasises the need to educate girls very early on in their development, to be cautious in their love relationships especially with men who may seem too good to be true.

  • Daughter in Exile: A Novel

    The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome.

    Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana, disapproves of her choice, but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America.

    That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey; she has traded her carefree existence in Senegal for the perilous position of an undocumented immigrant in 1990s America.

    Lola encounters adversity that would crush a less-determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether or not she’ll grow in courage to forge a different life from one she’d imagined, whether she’ll succeed in putting herself and family together again. Daughter in Exile is a hope-filled story about mother love, resilience, and unyielding strength.

  • The Teller of Secrets (HarperVia Edition)

    In this stunning debut novel—a tale of self-discovery and feminist awakening—a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid the political upheaval of late 1960s postcolonial Ghana begins to question the hypocrisy of her patriarchal society, and the restrictions and unrealistic expectations placed on women.

    Young Esi Agyekum is the unofficial “secret keeper” of her family, as tight-lipped about her father’s adultery as she is about her half-sisters’ sex lives. But after she is humiliated and punished for her own sexual exploration, Esi begins to question why women’s secrets and men’s secrets bear different consequences. It is the beginning of a journey of discovery that will lead her to unexpected places.

    As she navigates her burgeoning womanhood, Esi tries to reconcile her own ideals and dreams with her family’s complicated past and troubled present, as well as society’s many double standards that limit her and other women. Against a fraught political climate, Esi fights to carve out her own identity, and learns to manifest her power in surprising and inspiring ways.

    Funny, fresh, and fiercely original, The Teller of Secrets marks the American debut of one of West Africa’s most exciting literary talents.

  • Asantewaa

    Age Range: 12-16 years

    Asantewaa was once the most brilliant girl in school. She won all the prices as well as the administration of all. But everything changed when she joined the boarding school.

    With no one to tell her what to do at what time, she took her own path, which led her elsewhere.

    Follow Asantewaa as she discovers that all that glitters is not gold and success is only a few disciplines practiced everyday.

    This dramatic story will keep you on your toes and give you a lot to laugh about.

    Asantewaa

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  • Sam’s Wish

    Age Range: 6-10 years

    If I could, I would

    fly high and fly low…

    Sam’s wish is to see the world; so, he goes on an adventure into the wild.

    What would make him want to come back home?

    Sam’s Wish

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  • Adiza’s Dazzle

    Age Range: 9-16 years

    Adiza, the charcoal seller’s daughter, was constantly called ugly just because of her skin colour.

    Since there was nothing she could do to change her appearance, she channelled her energy into changing their opinion about her.

    How did she do it?

    Follow Adiza’s journey as she dazzles you on her way to the top.

     

  • Yaa Mansa: Victim of Beauty (Great Minds Series)

    Age Range: 8 – 12 years

    Beauty, they say, lies in the eyes of the beholder, but Yaa Mansa’s beauty was so glaring that even the meanest person could not help but steal a second glance at her.

    The most captivating of it all was her mesmerizing smile that stupefied men.

    Due to the unceasing ogling from lustful men here and there, Yaa Mansa realized that she was really sought for by men and that some men were even prepared to kill in order to have her. She, as a result, thought she could use her beauty to exploit them to get all that she wanted. At what cost does Yaa Mansa achieve her aim?

  • Nii Noi the Sanitation Officer

    Age Range: 6 – 15 years

    This book is a thought-provoking piece of a fairly peaceful community that wakes up to the incessant complaints of 13-year-old Nii Noi. Like the dawn of teenage, he becomes, somewhat, shocked by the deplorable sanitary conditions in his neighbourhood.

    Fuming at the apathy of everyone around him towards better sanitation practice, Nii Noi becomes a crusader for hygienic living. But as a prophet without honour in his community, it takes the tragedy of a flood to get the community to appreciate the crusade by Nii, and what he desires to achieve: a hygienic, clean and joyful community. The writer, through the voice and eyes of a boy, reveals the innocent naivety and obvious apathy of society, and the power of camaraderie and community to cause change.

  • How Ato Killed the Dragon

    Age Range: 3 – 6 years

    There once lived a man called Papa Ebo and his wife Maame Adae. They were very rich. They had only one daughter called Ama. They loved Ama so much that they did not even allow her to go out to mingle with other children, locking her up whenever they went out.

    What happened to Ama when her parents forgot to lock her door when they went out? Who took Ama away? And can she be saved?

  • A Painful Decision (Drama on Female Circumcision)

    Age Range: 6 – 12 years

    Africans have many customary practices. Sometime ago, these customs certainly had some advantages. With the passage of time, however, some of these practices have outlived their usefulness, not to mention the aim they are often associated with. Hence, there is the need for us to either modify these customary practices or abandon them altogether.

    It will be discovered, in this play, the great pain and suffering that female circumcision brings to our women.

    We do not dispute the fact that it is one of the legacies bequeathed to us by our forebears. Nonetheless, what prevents us from abandoning it since there is nothing to gain from it now or in future? The time has come for us to become selective in the practice of our customs so that only what brings progress to us is maintained.

  • Shattered Dreams

    Age Range: 6 – 12 years

    Rose and Susan were very close friends. They attended the same school, were in the same class and did everything in common. One thing kept close. Both of them took great delight in following rich old men and slept with them expressly for money.

    While Susan’s parents were against their habit of going after old men who could be their fathers, Rose’s mother encouraged her daughter in the act.

    “Use what you have to get what you want,” Rose’s mother used to tell her.

    The two girls continued with their wayward life until the inevitable happened.

  • Deception

    Age Range: 8 – 12 years

    This is a story of deception of a host of people by Chief Victor Okafor, the hero of the story. An orphan at a tender age, Victor ran away from the orphanage, joined street children, worked for one Chief Igwe and he grow to become the head of the street children, all of whom worked for Igwe as pickpockets.

    Victor abandoned the group after the arrest of Igwe and lived on his own, trafficking Nigerian girls to Italy. While all this was going on Victor’s matrimonial relatives were kept in the dark until his arrest and imprisonment.

    Deception

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  • Abo the Great Hunter

    Age Range: 5 – 9 years

    Abo the hunter goes on a hunting expedition. During this expedition, he encounters many challenges but returns with some precious gems. He conceals his wealth from everyone and fails to be kind to those in need.

  • The Agony of a Jealous Wife

    Age Range: 8 – 12 years

    Kwesi Atta is the richest man in the town of Abease and is married to Mensima, the daughter of the Krontihene of Abease. Their marriage has been blessed with four healthy and beautiful children – three girls and a boy. To outsiders, Atta’s family is an example of a happy family. Only those who are close to the couple know that behind the facade of a peaceful and happy existence is a potential active volcano…

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