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The Deal: The Case of the Professional Lady
An award winning investigative journalist is asked, “Who would you life to interview most?”
“The devil,” he replies.
He is told to be careful of what he wished for but he laughs if off until he finds the devil at the foot of his bed demanding an interview and inviting him to go undercover with him.
The Deal is the first published novel of Uncle Ebo Whyte. It brings attention to the deficiencies of our human nature, the choices we make and how those choices affect us. With very vivid descriptions of scenes that establish a suspense-filled plot, readers are bound to enjoy a rich, imaginative experience so real and captivating with life-enriching nuggets for all.
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Equiano’s Travels (African Writers Series, AWS10)
Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in a village east of the Niger River in what is now Nigeria. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African was published in London in 1789. This is his own account of a remarkable life.
At the age of ten he was captured by slave traders and taken to the southern states of America. He was sold to a planter in the West Indies and worked there and abroad slave ships sailing between the Caribbean and England. At the age of twenty-one he had saved enough money to buy his freedom. He visited the Mediterranean, took part in Phipps’ expedition to the Arctic in 1773 and crossed the Atlantic several times. He was an ardent member of the Movement for the Abolition of Slavery and was appointed Commissary for Stores when the freed slaves were settled in Sierra Leone.
This abridged edition has a new introduction by Professor Ogude of the University of Benin, together with explanatory notes on the text.
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Faceless
Street life in the slums of Accra is realistically portrayed in this socially-commited, subtle novel about four educated women who are inspired by the plight of a 14-year old girl, Fofo. As the main characters convert their library center into a practical street initiative, the novel invokes the squalor, health risks, and vicious cycles of poverty and violence that drive children to the streets and women to prostitution; and, from which, ultimately, no one in the society is free.
₵55.00Faceless
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Grief Child
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Africa
It was midnight. The little village of Susa slept in darkness in the heart of the forest farms, among the tall trees. The mahoganies and sapeles stood tall in the dark sky, providing a canopy over the village and deepening the density of the pitch-dark night. From a distant cluster of neighboring villages, Adu heard a dog bark. Another dog howled. In this village midnight was a dangerous time. It was better not to be awake or hear noises….
In this haunting tale the power of light struggles with the power of darkness to claim the life of Adu, the “grief child”.
₵35.00Grief Child
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A Squatter’s Tale (African Writers Series)
Young financier Obi enjoys life in the fast lane in 1990’s Lagos. He walks tall in designer suits with his girlfriend at his side enjoying the envy of those with empty purses.
When his finance company collapses Obi’s decadent lifestyle comes to an abrupt end and he is forced to flee to the United States. There he has to live on the margins of society. Obi wants money, he wants a woman, and he wants to live the good life.
This face-paced novel, by turns comic and moving, reveals what success and failure mean for the young Nigerian at home and in exile. Ike Oguine explores the alienation experienced by today’s economic refugees under the cover of light-hearted comedy.
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Arrows of Rain (African Writers Series)
This debut novel from the author of the powerful, universally acclaimed Foreign Gods, Inc. looks at a woman’s drowning and the ensuing investigation in an emerging African nation.In the country of Madia (based in part on Ndibe’s native Nigeria) a young prostitute runs into the sea and drowns. The last man who spoke to her, the “madman” Bukuru, is asked to account for her last moments. When his testimony implicates the Madian armed forces, Bukuru is arrested and charged with her death. At the first day of trial, Bukuru, acting as his own attorney, counters these charges with allegations of his own, speaking not only of government complicity in a series of violent assaults and killings, but telling the court that the president of Madia himself is guilty of rape and murder. The incident is hushed up, and Bukuru is sent back to prison, where he will likely meet his end. But a young journalist manages to visit him, and together they journey through decades of history that illuminate Bukuru’s life, and that of the entire nation.
A brave and powerful work of fiction, Arrows of Rain is a brilliant dramatization of the complex factors behind the near-collapse of a nation from one of the most exciting novelists writing today.₵55.00 -
Freshers’ Welcome (The Judacan Adventures 1)
Nagela St. James has been bundled into a boarding school all the way in Africa. She has left everything and anything that makes sense to her. In this first book of a series, let us join her in her adventure into an unknown world of boarding school with her and her friends.
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The Adventures of the Kapapa
In The Adventures of the Kapapa, the author creates, through Mr. Afful, a scientist, the Kapapa Craft which operates on anti-gravitational principle. The mechanical advantages and the exciting adventures provided by this invention an its follow-up, the Space Cargo Craft, take the reader into the realms of high imagination.
It is a book which is rich in language and humour and would have a special interest for both young and old.
Mr. J.O. Eshun holds the B.A. Honours degree in English and B.Sc. Honours in Physics. He taught for sometime, and now works with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Accra.
₵15.00The Adventures of the Kapapa
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Bookset: African Writers Series (51 titles)
Relive all the literary joys of yesteryears by purchasing this jumbo set of all your favourite African Writers Series titles such as Things Fall Apart, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Weep Not Child, So Long A Letter, No Sweetness Here and many more!
Exact titles will vary depending on availability.
₵2,703.00₵2,805.00Bookset: African Writers Series (51 titles)
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Bediako (Asante Twi)
Nhoma Bediako yi yɛ ayɛsɛm a efa aberante Kwasi Bediako abrabɔ mu nsɛm ho. Kwasi yɛ obi a n’awofo de Onyamesuro ne ɔdɔ tetew no. Osii so no, ɔwaree ababaa fɛfɛ bi a odwo na ɔbɔ ne ho mmɔden yiye nso ne no tenaa ɔdɔ ne asomdwoee mu.
Sika kakra baa Bediako nsam no, ofii ase bɔ fekuw bɔne. Ɔpam ne yere a ɔne no fii ɔbra ase no kɔfaa sɛbe, ɔbea kohwini bi betoo ne ho so. Ankyɛ Kwasi Bediako nyaa amanne kopuee Nkran afiase. Ne ho fii asɛm no mu no, Kwasi siim sɛ ɔrekɔ Abigyan akɔpɛ paa bi adi wɔ hɔ nanso abɛbrɛsɛ a ɛtoo no ɔkwan mu no amma wankodu hɔ. Ode ne ho kaa wura kɔtenaa Sahwi kwae mu baabi yɛɛ kua. Ɛho nso n’adwuma yɛɛ ɔkwa enti ɔsan n’akyi baa fie. Ɔbra ne Kwasi dii no nwenweennwen nanso akyiri yi na Bediako bɛdan ɔdefo kase.
Wotintim nhoma yi nea edi kan no, wɔn a wɔhwɛ Ɔman yi adesua so ne akyerɛkyerɛfo pii nyaa ayɛsɛm yi ne ne kyerɛw ho anigye mmoroso. Ne saa nti,wɔpaw Bediako se nhoma a ɛsɛ se sukuufo sua de yɛ ‘G.C.E.’ Twi sɔhwɛ. Nhoma yi mu nsɛm yɛ huam enti ebɛsi nnɛ dodow biara a wobetintim no nso to koraa. Eyi ama Owura Amarteifio asiesie nhoma dedaw no asesa mu ayɛ no kɛse kakra ama wɔatintim pii. Nhoma foforo no ni. Nokwa, Bediako yɛ nhoma a ɛsɛ se obiara to bi to ne sumii ase.
₵24.00Bediako (Asante Twi)
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Yɛse Yɛsee (Asante Twi)
This book is a collection of poems in Asante-Twi.
₵22.00Yɛse Yɛsee (Asante Twi)
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Me Ne M’akyinkyinakyinkyini Yi (Asante Twi)
This book is a novel written in Asante -Twi
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The Shimmigrant
A poignant yet optimistic story about the plight of a young immigrant. The Shimmigrant is a compelling story of a young girl’s will to survive against all odds.
₵65.00The Shimmigrant
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Houseboy (African Writers Series, AWS29)
Toundi Ondoua, the rural African protagonist of Houseboy, encounters a world of prisms that cast beautiful but unobtainable glimmers, especially for a black youth in colonial Cameroon.Houseboy, written in the form of Toundi’s captivating diary and translated from the original French, discloses his awe of the white world and a web of unpredictable experiences. Early on, he escapes his father’s angry blows by seeking asylum with his benefactor, the local European priest who meets an untimely death. Toundi then becomes “the Chief European’s ‘boy’–the dog of the King.” Toundi’s attempt to fulfill a dream of advancement and improvement opens his eyes to troubling realities. Gradually, preconceptions of the Europeans come crashing down on him as he struggles with his identity, his place in society, and the changing culture.₵55.00