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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.
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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.₵120.00 -
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
₵105.00₵115.00Folktale Book Set (5 books)
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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.
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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.
₵18.00 -
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.₵120.00 -
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
₵105.00₵115.00Folktale Book Set (5 books)
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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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Fly, Eagle Fly!
Age Range: 7 – 12 years
Fly, Eagle, Fly! is a charming and innovative adaptation of a Ghanaian tale attributed to Dr. James Kwegyir Aggrey – also known as Aggrey of Africa. With a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
After a stormy night, a farmer searching for his lost calf finds a baby eagle that has been blown out of its nest. He takes it home and raises it with his chickens. But when his friend comes to visit one day, he tells the farmer that an eagle should be flying high in the sky, not scrabbling on the ground for grain. A powerful and uplifting African tale of fulfilment and freedom brought to life by stunning illustrations.₵48.00Fly, Eagle Fly!
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Our Daily Bread: 2023 Annual Edition
Fill each day with everlasting hope and trust!
This Our Daily Bread Devotional Annual Edition will encourage and inspire you with stories, uplifting quotes and – most important – the Scriptures.The 365 short meditations will remind you how much God cares for you. Allow Him to meet you where you are, to speak into your life, and to lighten your spirit every day.
About Our Daily Bread
Our Daily Bread is distributed around the world and is translated into more than 50 languages. Each month millions of readers turn to the pages of this beloved devotional for inspiration, comfort, peace, and hope.
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Daily Guide: A Daily Devotional Guide for Adults (2023 Edition)
Scripture Union is serving God’s Church in this country by producing booklets which give a Bible reading every day throughout the year. These booklets help to make daily Bible reading easy, exciting, and meaningful, leading to true conversion, victorious living, fruitful service to the church and society. Become one of the thousands of happy Christians in the SU Bible reading family in Africa by using Daily Power (Youth/Family) or Daily Guide (Adults).
Scripture Union Ghana’s Daily Guide has been used for many years by Christians in Ghana and abroad for Quiet Time.
Remember the mantra from Daily Guide: No Bible, No Breakfast.
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Asɛnta, Oba! Vol 3 (Folktales in Cartoons, Ga)
“Asenta, Oba!” mli adesai lɛ jeee nɔ hee ha mɛi fɛɛ ni fɔ adafitswaawolo ni ji “Maŋsaralɔ” lɛ kanemɔ lɛ.
Adesai lɛ ateŋ eko fɛɛ eko eje kpo be ko pɛŋ, aloo nyɛsɛɛ ko, yɛ Maŋsaralɔ mli, ni kanelɔi enya amɛhe jogbaŋŋ.
Nikanelɔi abimɔnaa lɛ abua adesai nɛɛ sɔŋŋ anaa akɛfee woji muji, koni nikanelɔi krokomɛi hu ana amɛhe sɛɛ.
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Asɛnta, Oba! Vol 2 (Folktales in Cartoons, Ga)
“Asenta, Oba!” mli adesai lɛ jeee nɔ hee ha mɛi fɛɛ ni fɔ adafitswaawolo ni ji “Maŋsaralɔ” lɛ kanemɔ lɛ.
Adesai lɛ ateŋ eko fɛɛ eko eje kpo be ko pɛŋ, aloo nyɛsɛɛ ko, yɛ Maŋsaralɔ mli, ni kanelɔi enya amɛhe jogbaŋŋ.
Nikanelɔi abimɔnaa lɛ abua adesai nɛɛ sɔŋŋ anaa akɛfee woji muji, koni nikanelɔi krokomɛi hu ana amɛhe sɛɛ.
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Adze Fi Hamu (Mfantse)
Egya Tsinyinarannsɛ advised his two children, Onuaye and Fakyɛm to take to farming after completing their elementary education. The former obeyed their father’s advice but the latter refused to do farming and decided to go to Accra to look for a white-collar job.
Through hard work and dedication, Onuaye became a wealthy person and was able to rescue his brother, Fakyɛm from imminent imprisonment. Fakyɛm went back to the village and started farming, and, later, he Fakyɛm also became a wealthy person through farming.
₵38.00Adze Fi Hamu (Mfantse)
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Naa Luro Mini O Bihi (Dagbani)
This book tells about the life history of Naa Luro, a renowned Chief of Dagbong and his four sons who also became chiefs in succession after his death.
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Sensole Kukui (Dagbani)
This little book contains short stories about the behaviour of some animals and birds.
₵12.50Sensole Kukui (Dagbani)
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Ao M’akoma Mu (Mfantse)
Ao M’akoma Mu is an anthology of Fante poetry.
₵18.00Ao M’akoma Mu (Mfantse)
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The Triumph After Trial
Age Range: 6 – 12 years
The Triumph After Trial
₵18.00The Triumph After Trial
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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?
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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.
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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?
₵12.00How Ato Killed the Dragon
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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.
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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.
₵18.00Shattered Dreams
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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.
₵18.00Deception
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