• Infinite Roots

    “I must tell you my history,” Baba would roar, “the history you learn at school is not better than that which I have to tell you. My history concerns you directly, it is who you are, what you are, and what you’re going to become.”

    “…woven in an unbroken thread of prose…in a complex, digressive narrative that is like a set of Chinese boxes (or those Russian Matryoshka dolls), one laid inside another.” — Literary Review

    Infinite Roots follows the multi-generational story of a Ghanaian military family, composed through the eyes of a young daughter learning about her history and culture through the many stories of her parents and elders. This autobiographical novel spreads out across the 60s and 80s Ghana as the military family journeys from Wa to Tamale to Accra to Kumasi to Takoradi to Ho and more. As the young girl grows, she also begins to share her own re-tellings as her elders once did.

    “…it is an incredible survey of Ghanaian traditions, customs, superstitions and beliefs, as well as social and political history and the emergence of female education.” — Lee Oliver

    Infinite Roots

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  • Danger Express (Pacesetters)

    Where was he now? he (Ishmael) wondered…

    Gradually his mind began to clear…Slowly he started to put the shattering events of the recent past into place.

    There was something important he had to do. Had to…

    The lives of several important heads of state, VIPs and many others including children and the loveable Tom are in the balance. And time is running out for Ishmael.

  • Victims of Hope

    She grows up in a village in Ghana. Efia questions the things around her but she must learn to live with the rich but rigid culture.
    When she boards the flight to pursue a law degree at Harvard, little does she know what shocking punches life will throw at her in Boston. She returns home armed with a Law Degree, only to realize there is so much more to life in Africa, than her “book knowledge”.

    Efia falls for Big Joe. He is a great lover but he comes with great trouble. Is he also dating the only daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Ghana, the ruthless Alhaji Yusif?  Alas, Efia is already pregnant.

    Alhaji is not one to forgive… He does not.

    Ansah, Efia’s brother steps in with a plan. His sister does not deserve this.

    The yam that will burn, will burn boiled or roasted.

    Victims of Hope

    50.00
  • The Mystery of A Cockcrow: A Play in Three Acts

    The Mystery of a Cockrow, a play in three acts, is centered in a small village and lays bare the full miseries of matrilineal inheritance in the Ghanaian Society.

  • Zeb Silhouette

    Zeb Olima Jefferson is a bold and inspiring character. Determined to live her life according to her own rules, she travels from a dangerous relationship in Nigeria to life as an immigrant in America and then back to Nigeria again. There she faces a challenge that threatens her very sanity. This is a moving, shocking and compelling novel.

    Zeb Silhouette

    100.00
  • Notes on Amma Darko’s Faceless

    This book, Notes on Faceless, is intended as a study guide for students of Amma Darko’s novel, Faceless. Readers of Faceless go back again and again to this novel because it makes them feel and think about many issues in the book that relate to what happens around them. A good work of fiction allows us to imaginatively participate in what it means to be part of human society. Fiction “holds up a mirror” to us about life. It is therefore important to be able to understand and explain, as well as becomes more alert to how literature works. This book aims to help you do so, focusing on Faceless.

    Notes on Faceless discusses what Darko does in Faceless and how she does it: the plot of the story, its setting, characterization, theme and style. Like every other field of study, literature has a special vocabulary that is used by all good students of the subject. Therefore, while discussing the essential elements in Faceless (i.e. plot, setting, etc.), this book also introduces you to some of the important literary terms or technical vocabulary used in reading literature. The goal is to make you familiar with the right language for talking and writing about a work of literature and to teach you how to use this language in your own reading and writing.

    This book takes you further into your study of literature by guiding you to use suitable vocabulary to actually talk and write about a work of literature. After walking you through a discussion of each element, Notes on Faceless gives you practice in writing about Faceless in particular and literature in general.

  • The Come Back

    The Come Back is a novel written in an African setting. The book attempts to answer a grave question posed to the author by a former pupil of his who was at the time in her second year in the high school. “Sir,” asked the pupil, “why do people get spoiled when they get to the secondary school?”

    Bernard, the protagonist, started well in a quiet, loving and godly home but something happened when he got to high school. What happened? What is wrong with our colleges and college students? How do we explain the peer pressure, rebellion, violence and moral decadence that have engulfed our youth and is collapsing the decent values of our society?

    The author seeks to provide the answers as he brings out the issues, the causes and appropriate answers woven into this story in a thrilling, captivating and humorous style.

    The Come Back

    35.00
  • Gertrude

    She had braved all odds to be in school. Now she was a lawyer and uncircumcised. When, for the umpteenth time, there was an attempted rape on her, she returned to her roots to appease both the living and the dead through circumcision as well as make it difficult for potential rapists to get at her.

    Shortly after this irreversible operation, she met and married a man from another ethnic group, an ethnic group that did not want their wives circumcised and stitched up like chicken pudding.

    Gertrude

    35.00
  • Nice Things To Remember

    What nice things do you want to remember? At home, at school, on the street, in the farm, when you travel, wherever you are, there are nice things to remember.

    This book is for all children—to remind you about some of these nice things which you will like to remember

  • The Forest Village

    Bibi’s life was changed forever when her mother was sacked from their village. As tradition demanded, she was forced to go and live with her father’s family. She found consolation in a forest nearby until something terrible happened.

  • Two Little Ants

    A terrible thing has happened. All the smaller animals are dead. Only two little ants, Moffa and his brother Miffa, survive. Where will they go and find food? Will they have children? What will happen to them?

    Two Little Ants

    35.00
  • Ayisha

    Ayisha is washing bowls in the compound house. She hears the conversation between her father and mother. Mother wants Ayisha to attend school, but Father says “No”. Will the father change his mind? Will Ayisha go to school?

    Ayisha

    35.00
  • Journeys of an African Father

    Chamba Jato was a witty old man full of practical wisdom and a lively attitude to work and life. This biographical book is full of such valuable lessons from the old man’s journeys of experiences.

  • Just Between Us: Highly Sensitive Matrimonial Love Letters

    If you had the opportunity to write a critical letter to your spouse, what would the content of that letter be, especially if no one else but just the two of you would ever know what you wrote?

    In Just Between Us, twenty-four love-constrained people, having travelled several years into their matrimony, write letters to their spouses, revealing top secrets, scandalous confessions, bizarre observations, childish suspicions, irreversible regrets, real fear, unbelievable actions, and even laughable inhibitions – all of them quite shocking and a bit disturbing.

    “This is a work of fiction,” admits the author, “the figment of a fertile imagination.” Yet, this product of the author’s thought is so real that it will challenge your own wildest ideas about matrimonial relationships.

    You will find the stories in these letters to be highly sensitive and sometimes uncomfortable, but they are unforgettable and deeply touching.

  • Junior African Writers Series Bookset Levels 1 – 2 (10 titles)

    Develop literacy skills in your 8-15 year olds with exciting and engaging books for all reading levels.

    The sentence structure and vocabulary has been carefully constructed to suit your students experience and age so that as they grow, so do their literacy abilities.

    Titles in this set include titles such as (likely to change due to availability of titles):

    Taxi to Johannesburg — Matlakala Bopape and Peta Constable (Level 1)

    The Big Fight — Michael Cullup (Level 1)

    The Frightened Thief — Amu Djoleto (Level 1)

    The Midnight Caller — Anthony Umelo (Level 2)

    The Hyena Valley — The Hyena Valley (Level 2)

    The Secret of Nkwe Hill — Marcus Khama ter Haar (Level 2)

    The Smile Thief — Fatou Keita (Level 2)

    The Magic Pool — Gaele Mogwe (Level 2)

    Happy the Street Child — F.M. Mlekwa (Level 2)

    Kodua’s Ark — Yaw Ababio Boateng (Level 3)

    The Ashanti Golden Stool — Ayebia Ribeiro-Ayeh (Level 3)

    The Haunted Taxi Driver — Kofi Sekyi (Level 3)

    The Secret Valley — Mike Sadler (Level 4)

    …and many more!

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