• Animal Village (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 7 – 12 years

    Animal Village is an authentic folk tale from the Zarma culture of West Africa about a tortoise who saves her village from the ravages of drought with wisdom passed down from an “old story.” Nelda LaTeef’s colorful and strikingly brilliant montage of illustrations, in acrylic and collage, captures the richness and vibrancy of the sub-Saharan culture from which the story springs.

    The story is especially relevant to sub-Saharan Africa as it focuses on the devastation of drought and the importance of received knowledge. With its dual themes of wisdom and grit, the book happily entertains while it teaches the importance of hard work and persistence as keys to success.
  • Abla Poku – The Baoulé Queen (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 7 – 10 years

    This colour illustrated children’s book tells the story of Abena Poku. Once upon a time, there was a mighty kingdom in the central part of ancient Ghana known as the Asante Kingdom. It had a powerful king known as Otumfuo Osei Tutu I, the Asantehene. Osei Tutu I had a niece called Abena Poku.

    After some unrest Abena Poku and her people settled in the area between the Comoe and Bandama rivers in the eastern part of the Ivory Coast and founded a kingdom of their own with Abena Poku as the first queen. Her kingdom became known as the Baoulé Kingdom. Abena Poku thus founded a dynasty which has survived to date.

  • No. 10 Purple Street: Sparkles, Secrets and Sleepovers

    This story unfolds the extraordinary life on “Purple Street”, a charming place where Quoquo resides with her family and two best friends, Avery and Eslyn. It’s a thought-provoking piece about the power of love, strong family bonds, genuine friendship, and good neighbourliness.

    Get ready to be captivated by this relatable yet extraordinary narrative.

    This is the first in the No. 10 Purple Street series. Look out for more adventures in the next book.

  • Manuwa Street

    “Lagos brings you alive. Lagos kills you. Here, you’ll be wrong about everything. Here, you won’t have anything to worry about. Lagos creates as many millionaires as it sends poor people to the mat. Here, Nature abounds as much as it self-destructs. And never, you humans, despite your beliefs and certainties, have you ever wanted to live so much. In the midst of this overflow, this too many people, this too much waste, injustices, parties and excesses. Of everything you’ve tried to ignore until now.”

    French journalist Sophie Bouillon documents living in Lagos in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown. As a journalist, she gets out of her night to go and write the dispatch that will announce to the world that Africa, in turn, is affected by this “white virus” that is bringing the West to its knees.

    In this thoughtful narrative non-fiction, Bouillon explores everyday life in Lagos through experiences from her career and personal life. In one unforgettable year, the city was rocked by explosions, evictions and protests. A city that never sleeps put to bed by the pandemic. Manuwa Street is the impressive story of a year that will end with the uprising of a people. It is also and above all a hypnotic and luminous dive into a city that never lets up, meeting men and women struggling with the din of the world.

    But Manuwa Street isn’t just a disinterested documentation of a foreigner’s impression of Lagos; it is about love, uncertainty, hope and survival.

    Manuwa Street

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  • Kwadwoan: Our World and Our People for Kindergarten 2

    Suitable for children between 2 and 6 years

    Our World and Our People (OWOP) for Basic Schools series are activity-based books which have been carefully written and designed in conformity with the current approved curriculum of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), of the Ghana Education Service for Basic Schools (September, 2019).

    Each book consists of five (5) major strands, namely,

    1. All About Us
    2. All Around Us
    3. Our Beliefs And Values
    4. Our Nation, Ghana
    5. My Global Community.

    Under each strand are four (4) sub-strands.

    There are enough practical activities to involve learners and to test their Relevant Previous Knowledge about the subject matter which puts them at the centre of the teaching and learning process.

    The series also provide critical thinking which helps learners to develop their cognitive and reasoning abilities to enable them analyse issues and situations, leading to the resolution of problems in their everyday activities. There are enough Class Exercises, Projects and Home Learning/Parents Help that could be useful for School Based Assessment (S.B.A).

  • Kwadwoan: Our World and Our People for Kindergarten 1

    Suitable for children between 2 and 6 years

    Our World and Our People (OWOP) for Basic Schools series are activity-based books which have been carefully written and designed in conformity with the current approved curriculum of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), of the Ghana Education Service for Basic Schools (September, 2019).

    Each book consists of five (5) major strands, namely,

    1. All About Us
    2. All Around Us
    3. Our Beliefs And Values
    4. Our Nation, Ghana
    5. My Global Community.

    Under each strand are four (4) sub-strands.

    There are enough practical activities to involve learners and to test their Relevant Previous Knowledge about the subject matter which puts them at the centre of the teaching and learning process.

    The series also provide critical thinking which helps learners to develop their cognitive and reasoning abilities to enable them analyse issues and situations, leading to the resolution of problems in their everyday activities. There are enough Class Exercises, Projects and Home Learning/Parents Help that could be useful for School Based Assessment (S.B.A).

  • Moses and the Gunman (Pacesetters)

    Cries of ‘Bang! Bang!’, ‘Get em up!’ and ‘Everybody freeze!’ filled the air.

    Suddenly Dorm 3 was full of would-be cowboys, gangsters and cops.

    Only the irrepressible Moses and his friends could make a day of work experience into an adventure with an unlikely gunman.

  • Angel of Death (Pacesetters)

    Zak Biko is a tall good-looking black South African, born in the township of Soweto, who has become internationally famous for his prowess as an ace detective with the FBI in New York City. His involvement with the ‘Angel of Death’ begins late one stormy night when his Mercedes stalls outside a darkened, lonely house and the silence is broken by the terrified scream of a young girl.

  • The Hopeful Lovers (Pacesetters)

    Roseline Momoh enters university full of optimism. Her academic record is good, she has been accepted to study the subjects of her choice and, of most importance, she has met and fallen in love with a young medical student, Tade Eji, who reciprocates her feelings. But the relationship is not all that Roseline believes it to be and Tade’s character leads him, in spite of himself, to jeopardize his chances of happiness.

  • Remember Death (Pacesetters)

    Rango will stop at nothing to make money, live in London, and have a good life. He becomes involved with Laxman, the unscrupulous importer of chemicals, and out-of-date chemicals which will affect the living of thousands of coffee farmers pour into the country. When it seems that they are about to be unmasked, Rango recruits a young factory worker to blow up the Dar es Salaam chemicals factory. Malleko finds himself in an unhappy position. Whatever he does will lead to his death.

  • Nyakyusa-English-Swahili & English-Nyakyusa Dictionary

    Unhappy with the policy of using English as the medium of instruction in secondary schools in Tanzania which left his students bewildered, a Norwegian volunteer teacher in Ipinda, Tukuyu, south western region of Tanzania decided that his students would probably cope with the foreign language only after they were grounded first in the structure of their own languages — Nyakyusa and Swahili. As a trilingual dictionary was not available, he set out to compile one and this well-produced dictionary is the product. Words, examples and usages are included.

  • 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.

  • Who Will Cry When You Die?

    Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

    Do You Feel that life is slipping by so fast that you might never get the chance to live with the meaning, happiness and joy you know you deserve? If so, then this book will be the guiding light that leads you to a brilliant new way of living.

    In this easy-to-read yet wisdom-rich manual, the author offers 101 simple solutions to life’s most complex problems, ranging from a little-known method for beating stress and worry to a powerful way to enjoy the journey while you create a legacy that lasts.

    “When You Were Born, You Cried While The World Rejoiced. Live Your Life In Such A Way That When You Die, The World Cries While You Rejoice.”
    Ancient Sanskrit Saying

  • Waning Strength of Government: Essays on Nigerian Governance

    In Waning Strength of Government, Obaze draws on twenty-three of his various speeches, policy briefs, lectures and op-eds, to render exploratory essays that dissect some common patterns and trajectories that point anthetically to factors and conducts, which ought to constitute the strength of government, but don’t.  In so doing, he unmasks the prevailing weaknesses and waning strength of government – the attendant consequences, and their prevalence and implications for Nigeria.

    Such developments, with the attendant reversals, some nondescript and some dramatic, but replete with absence of resilience, leads the author to assert that democracy, “once characterized as probably the greatest expansion of freedom,” has come under assault from within its ranks, as shifts in geopolitics combine with ascendancy of non-state actors to undercut democracy.  Cognizant of the suggestion that the democratic system as conceptualized, has not just worked as expected, but is rather dysfunctional, the author asserts that nowhere is this consideration more evident and concrete than in Africa, Nigeria included.

    Waning Strength of Government piggybacks on the assertion that Nigeria’s “democracy is in reverse gear” and “the story is that of regrets and missteps.” Obaze employs an inquiry and excursion model using the flipside of McGeorge Bundy’s 1968 seminal book, The Strength of Government, to analyze leadership, political and governance challenges that continue to dog Nigeria’s nascent democracy.  The essays in this volume, which are clustered into four groupings; democratic imperatives; domestic development challenges; foreign policy dimensions and leadership and governance, explore some Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT), as well as general challenges and uncertain aspects of Nigeria’s affected democracy.

    In this very important work on Nigerian contemporary politics, leadership and dilemmas confronting the nation, the point is made severally, and vehemently too, that the strength of government is not about military capacity or use of force; but about the upholding the rule of law, consolidating democratic institutions and entrenching the social contract between the government and the governed.

  • The Ga Picture Alphabet (Ga)

    A is for Akpakpa, B is for Baa…

    Ga is the beautiful, poetic language that lent the word kwashiokor to global medical vocabulary.

    Working alongside Peruvian illustrator Avril Filomeno, renowned Ghanaian novelist and poet, Nii Ayikwei Parkes has created a playful universe in which the pictures tell a story as you learn the letters of the Ga alphabet.

    Simple and fun, this one-of-a-kind book gives children the basics needed to master this musical language of West Africa.

    Bonus: This picture book includes a colourful glossary with Ewe, Dagbani and Akan as well as French and English translations for all the words!

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