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A Saint in Brown Sandals
Age Range: 8 and 11 years
Eleven-year old Rabi thinks it would be wonderful to be like her classmate Maybelline – rich, pretty and popular with everyone in school. As her school’s big event on television draws closer, Rabi realises she has only one chance to be a star. Where she will shine best? Will it be if she follows in Maybelline’s dainty footsteps? Or will it be if she dares to run along as herself?
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Once Upon a Time in Ghana – Volume I
Once Upon a Time in Ghana was named a Children’s Africana Book Award Best Book 2014.
Recorded on location in the Volta Region in Ghana in 2006-07, these stories are the result of collaboration between Anna Cottrell and Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah. Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah translated the Ewe stories into English and Anna Cottrell has retold them in contemporary English for the wider European market. This edition presents the 24 stories in their original form for the Ghanaian market.
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Bookset: African Folktale Series (8 books)
Age Range: 7 – 12 years
In these beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktales with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.₵190.00₵200.00Bookset: African Folktale Series (8 books)
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Folktale Book Set (5 books)
Including one comic.
A client remarked: “Can you believe my girl had never heard of these Ananse stories before [reading the set I bought from you?]”
Don’t let your children miss this important Ghanaian heritage.
Books in this set (5 books – may vary due to availability of titles)
Ananse and the Sticky Gum (comic)
Ananse’s Justice
Why The Dog Has a Hollow Stomach
Ananse and the Pot of Wisdom
The Contest and Other Spiderman Tales
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Who Told the Most Incredible Story: Vol 1 – How Dog’s Nose Became Dark and Other Stories
These amazing tales will preoccupy both children and adult minds, anywhere. The stories are simple, visualising the world through narration. They provide deep insights into human life, with emphasis on the essence of African lifestyle and ways of understanding. Among others, they hold a mirror for readers all over the world to see who we were and who we can become, while thinking of who we are.
Written in straightforward and engaging language, the author weaves the stones out of the cultural fabric woven by the ancestors with authenticity. To make it easy rooting for readers across ages, these remarkable narratives are beautifully and colourfully illustrated, adding an intricate layer to the material.
“Each tale entertains and creates a context for creative and innovative learning. The collection is therefore highly recommended for enjoyment and study by everyone – thinkers, political scientists, writers, theologians, sociologists and anyone who appreciates the African way of life”. – Dr. K. B. Maison (Nana Kobena Nketsia V)
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Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana’s capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra’s most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city’s evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his impressions of the sights, sounds, interactions, and distribution of space with broader dynamics, including the histories of colonial and postcolonial town planning and the marks of transnationalism evident in Accra’s salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards.
Quayson finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF-mandated structural adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early-1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexisting with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.
“Oxford Street, Accra offers a fresh portrait of a rising African metropolis by one of the most original and skilled critics of the African condition. Deeply researched and packed with detail and bold in scope and analysis, Oxford Street, Accra is a unique addition to the growing body of work on contemporary African Urbanism. This extraordinary book shows the extent to which the future of urban theory might well lie in the global South.” – Achille Mbembe, author of Critique de la raison négre.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
- Oxford Street, Accra is a must-buy as an invaluable companion and compass for both newcomers and returning visitors to Accra.
- Oxford Street, Accra was chosen as one of the ‘UK Guardian’s 10 Best City Books of the World in 2014.’
- Oxford Street, Accra was also the Co-Winner of ‘The Urban History Association’s Top Award in the International Category For Books Published About World Cities in 2013 – 2014.’
- Oxford Street, Accra contains an encyclopedic knowledge of the City of Accra, tracing the city’s evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day.
- The book offers a microcosm of historical and urban knowledge of the making of the city that have transformed Accra into the sophisticated metropolis that is it today.
₵160.00
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A Saint in Brown Sandals
Age Range: 8 and 11 years
Eleven-year old Rabi thinks it would be wonderful to be like her classmate Maybelline – rich, pretty and popular with everyone in school. As her school’s big event on television draws closer, Rabi realises she has only one chance to be a star. Where she will shine best? Will it be if she follows in Maybelline’s dainty footsteps? Or will it be if she dares to run along as herself?
₵30.00A Saint in Brown Sandals
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Once Upon a Time in Ghana – Volume I
Once Upon a Time in Ghana was named a Children’s Africana Book Award Best Book 2014.
Recorded on location in the Volta Region in Ghana in 2006-07, these stories are the result of collaboration between Anna Cottrell and Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah. Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah translated the Ewe stories into English and Anna Cottrell has retold them in contemporary English for the wider European market. This edition presents the 24 stories in their original form for the Ghanaian market.
₵25.00 -
Bookset: African Folktale Series (8 books)
Age Range: 7 – 12 years
In these beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktales with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.₵190.00₵200.00Bookset: African Folktale Series (8 books)
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Folktale Book Set (5 books)
Including one comic.
A client remarked: “Can you believe my girl had never heard of these Ananse stories before [reading the set I bought from you?]”
Don’t let your children miss this important Ghanaian heritage.
Books in this set (5 books – may vary due to availability of titles)
Ananse and the Sticky Gum (comic)
Ananse’s Justice
Why The Dog Has a Hollow Stomach
Ananse and the Pot of Wisdom
The Contest and Other Spiderman Tales
₵130.00Folktale Book Set (5 books)
₵130.00 -
Who Told the Most Incredible Story: Vol 1 – How Dog’s Nose Became Dark and Other Stories
These amazing tales will preoccupy both children and adult minds, anywhere. The stories are simple, visualising the world through narration. They provide deep insights into human life, with emphasis on the essence of African lifestyle and ways of understanding. Among others, they hold a mirror for readers all over the world to see who we were and who we can become, while thinking of who we are.
Written in straightforward and engaging language, the author weaves the stones out of the cultural fabric woven by the ancestors with authenticity. To make it easy rooting for readers across ages, these remarkable narratives are beautifully and colourfully illustrated, adding an intricate layer to the material.
“Each tale entertains and creates a context for creative and innovative learning. The collection is therefore highly recommended for enjoyment and study by everyone – thinkers, political scientists, writers, theologians, sociologists and anyone who appreciates the African way of life”. – Dr. K. B. Maison (Nana Kobena Nketsia V)
₵40.00 -
Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana’s capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra’s most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city’s evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his impressions of the sights, sounds, interactions, and distribution of space with broader dynamics, including the histories of colonial and postcolonial town planning and the marks of transnationalism evident in Accra’s salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards.
Quayson finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF-mandated structural adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early-1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexisting with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.
“Oxford Street, Accra offers a fresh portrait of a rising African metropolis by one of the most original and skilled critics of the African condition. Deeply researched and packed with detail and bold in scope and analysis, Oxford Street, Accra is a unique addition to the growing body of work on contemporary African Urbanism. This extraordinary book shows the extent to which the future of urban theory might well lie in the global South.” – Achille Mbembe, author of Critique de la raison négre.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
- Oxford Street, Accra is a must-buy as an invaluable companion and compass for both newcomers and returning visitors to Accra.
- Oxford Street, Accra was chosen as one of the ‘UK Guardian’s 10 Best City Books of the World in 2014.’
- Oxford Street, Accra was also the Co-Winner of ‘The Urban History Association’s Top Award in the International Category For Books Published About World Cities in 2013 – 2014.’
- Oxford Street, Accra contains an encyclopedic knowledge of the City of Accra, tracing the city’s evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day.
- The book offers a microcosm of historical and urban knowledge of the making of the city that have transformed Accra into the sophisticated metropolis that is it today.
₵160.00
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The Step-Monster
Everyone knows stepmothers are bad, wicked and just plain evil. Buerki Puplampu cannot believe that her widowed father is getting remarried when her mother has not even been dead for long! She just knows that Naadu Nartey is wrong for her father. It isn’t even because Naadu is bigger than a hippo or because she laughs like a cow or has hair on her face and chest like a cavewoman. She just knows. Some people call that feeling intuition, some call it superstition, soem even say it’s a gift. Call it what you want but Buerki’s gut feelings have never failed her. She vows to do everything in her power to save her younger brother and herself from the fate she knows is awaiting them. They will not be maltreated or abused by this new woman. She will make sure of it.
₵35.00The Step-Monster
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Taking A Stand (The Judacan Adventures 6)
When a secret is uncovered, Nagela is angry enough to want payback. She wants the offender to feel her anger and humiliation but is revenge her answer?
Dorm mate Joy, on the other hand, is doing all she can, to make a difference until she lets the feelings of others railroad her away from focus.
Both girls are taking a stand but for what? The girls are back…
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Back to School (The Judacan Adventures 5)
It is the stand of a brand new year and the commencement of the second term. The girls are excited to return to school (most of them anyway). They are red up; new classes to attend, extracurricular activities to engage in, seniors to outwit and teachers to please.
They can't wait to share all their holiday experiences with their mates; and who is the new girl in St. Frances Dorm 6?
Judacan girls are going 'back to school' and banking on an eventful term.
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Shadows of the Term (The Judacan Adventures 4)
The term is drawing to an ed. The Form 1 girls have to go through counseling to choose the right field of study. The rest of the school prepare for and take their end of term exam. As with everything at JUDACA, everyday is an adventure.
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Miss Fresher (The Judacan Adventures 3)
Joy loves her role as a lady in shining armour; ready to race in and save her dorm mate Diane from classroom tyranny. Or is she secretly worried? Freshers' Night is back on and St. Francis House is not have a walk in the park. Which house will emerge as the overall winner? And who will take the all important Ms. Fresher crown? The twists and turns continue at St. Jude's Academy for Girls.
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Justify Your Inclusion (The Judacan Adventures 2)
“Miss Freshers” has been postponed for reasons yet to be known, the girls are disappointed. However they do no have long to dwell on their letdown; an impromptu exam, “Justify Your Inclusion”, has to be prepared for.
Each of the girls has a reason to excel, what is the outcome?
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Book Set: The Judacan Adventures (Books 1 – 6)
Popular amongst upper primary pupils, The Judacan Adventures Bookset detail the adventures of Nagela in a hitherto unknown world of boarding school at St Jude’s Academy, having been bundled to a new school in a new environment. Can she survive?
Titles in this collection (6)
Freshers’ Welcome
Justify Your Inclusion
Miss Fresher
Shadows of the Term
Back to School
Taking A Stand₵156.00₵174.00Book Set: The Judacan Adventures (Books 1 – 6)
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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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3 Siblings and Josh’s Journey
Age Range: 7 – 12 years
Book #4 in the 3Siblings series
Joshua is having time of his life. He is visiting the United States for the first time (sans his family). He visits the ‘Big Apple’ and then goes on to the ‘show me state,’ where he will live for three months with the Billings family. Joshua must adjust to living in America and learn to make friends. This will the hardest thing he has ever done. Join Joshua on his trip to the United States. You might learn something.₵29.00 -
3 Siblings and a Cousin
Age Range: 7 – 12 years
Book #2 in the 3Siblings series
“Shut up and listen. Did you just hear Mum, inviting Catherine dearest to spend Christmas with us?”
“And?” Joshua asked.
“Earth to Joshua, Catherine cannot come here!” Naomi exclaimed.
“And how do you plan to stop her from coming, short of us moving?”
“That is why I need your help; we have to tell Mum that Catherine cannot come.”
“Naomi, leave me out of your schemes. I’m not interested. I don’t care if Catherine comes or not.”
“What do you mean, Joshua? My problems should be yours too and have you forgotten so soon…”
Who is Catherine? And why does her pending arrival have Naomi in a bellyache?
₵29.003 Siblings and a Cousin
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3 Siblings and Family
Book #3 in the 3Siblings series
The 3 Siblings are at it again; Joshua is preparing for his Basic Examination, he’s walking around like he has the whole world on his puny shoulders.
Naomi acts like a jealous wife when her father’s old girlfriend comes to town.
Matthew is having social problems of his own that he has no idea how to solve.
Let’s catch up on our favourite 3 Siblings as they disentangle themselves from their day-to-day challenges with the help of each other and their family.
₵29.003 Siblings and Family
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The Golden Forest
Suitable for upper primary pupils and children between 9 and 11 years
River Dansu takes away Kwabena’s lime and gives him a fish instead. Kwabena loses one thing after another until he finds gold, becomes very rich and finds a cure for his disease.
₵20.00The Golden Forest
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