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Poems and Rhymes for African Children
For over half a century in the Ghanaian educational system, poetry at the primary level has never been revised. The poems and rhymes that our parents recited whilst in school are the same poems we also recited (Fox Fox Fox, Mary Had A Little Lamb etc). Unfortunately most of these poems have no African settings and our children do not understand them.
Poems and Rhymes for African Children has been written to extol the virtues and values of the African and make children identify themselves with what they read. It covers almost every area in life such as culture, education, safety and sanitation.
The literary devices of rhyme and rhythm make it easier to sing some of these poems as songs. You and your child will have fun reading this book together!
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A Slim Queen in a Palanquin: Verses and Chants for Children
“Atukwei Okai has more skill with purely rhythmic effect thann any other living poet. Okai has little hauteur. His windows lie open, and between the panes drift love and lush vegetation. Poetry is what happens when the air-conditioning fails.” Robert Fraser, West African Poetry, A Critical History
Introduce your children to this beautifully-illustrated trilogy of verses and chants from the famed poet, Atukwei Okai.
A Slim Queen in a Palanquin is a collection of verses and chants for children. And it comes at last to fill the long-starved world of our children with music and fantasy, beauty and joy.
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The Matriarch’s Verse
I am a mongrel; a mixed breed of Ga, Ewe, Akuapem, English, Middle-Eastern and American cultures; I am a Third Culture Kid.
Apiorkor’s socio-cultural experiences are interesting and might appear to be unique. But the truth is that there are several other Ghanaians who are secret sharers of her life. Such people lack access to platforms that would allow them to tell their collective story, so that their societies and communities can re-think all of the things that affect them.
Happily, Apiorkor is an artist over matter and over emotions. She possesses a mastery over words and over the essences of life. Many Ghanaian men, women and children are like her.
And her voice represents their voices.
In this sensational collection, The Matriarch seeks to celebrate, shock, tickle, challenge and highlight our Ghanaian-ness in the 21st Century. The author peppers our imagination with the following:
What does it mean to be Ghanaian?
How have we progressed?
Why do we stand for the things we stand for?
Who really is the modern Ghanaian woman?
Where is the global place for the urban Ghanaian space?
₵50.00The Matriarch’s Verse
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A Pawpaw on a Mango Tree: Verses and Chants for Children
“Atukwei Okai has more skill with purely rhythmic effect thann any other living poet. Okai has little hauteur. His windows lie open, and between the panes drift love and lush vegetation. Poetry is what happens when the air-conditioning fails.” Robert Fraser, West African Poetry, A Critical History
Introduce your children to this beautifully-illustrated trilogy of verses and chants from the famed poet, Atukwei Okai.
A Pawpaw on a Mango Tree is a collection of verses and chants for children. And it comes at last to fill the long-starved world of our children with music and fantasy, beauty and joy.
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The Anthill in the Sea: Verses and Chants for Children
Introduce your children to this beautifully-illustrated trilogy of verses and chants from the famed poet, Atukwei Okai.
The Anthill in the Sea is a collection of verses and chants for children. And it comes at last to fill the long-starved world of our children with music and fantasy, beauty and joy.
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After Lights Out: Poems for the Young
This is a collection of poems for the young.
Suitable for children 6 years and above.
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Birds and Other Poems
A delightful series of stories for young readers, with lively illustrations to promote a love of reading from an early age. An essential addition to home, class and school libraries.
₵15.00Birds and Other Poems
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You Too Will Know Me: A Selection of New-Generation African Poets (A Chapbook Set – Sita)
“There is something exciting about encountering in these poets not a rejection of the past, but a genuine engagement with it. And this engagement is predicated on a desire to make sense of the present. The past is fraught with contradictory impulses, and yet it offers the possibility of meaning. In many ways, these collections should be a reassuring, even if at the time unsettling, gift for the older poets who are concerned that the contemporary poet is not engaged by the past — not engaged by the traditions of the past, if you will. What these poets demonstrate is a persistent sense that they have been shaped by their pasts, but they engage the past in the manner of the lyric itself.” — Kwame Dawes, from the box set introduction
“Here is a poet whose practised weaving of talk and song is a testament to her devotion to language and her clarity of vision. Those of us who have encounted Diaka with excitement invite you to listen to us as she offers us a new song, one which will surely not be her last.” — Tjawangwa Dema, from the preface
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Full Set of Nana Awere Damoah books
The full set of Nana Awere Damoah's 7 books is available now, including the soon-to-launched new book Quotes by NAD. Autographed.
Get the 7 books together for GHS 250 including free delivery across Ghana.
Books in this set
Excursions in My Mind
Through the Gates of Thought
Tales from Different Tails
I Speak of Ghana
Sebitically Speaking
Nsempiisms
Quotes by NAD₵250.00₵270.00Full Set of Nana Awere Damoah books
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When the Cock Crows – Poems for Children
These short poems are suitable for introducing young children to poetry.
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The Poetry of Ephraim Amu (Ephraim Amu Memorial Lecture, #6)
Lecture delivered by Professor L.A. Boadi in May, 2004.
Dr Amu has been known for his musical compositions and experimentations in musical styles, and a lot has been written about this aspect of his work. But, apart from cursory references made by Professor Nketia and Professor Agawu about him as a poet, there hasn’t been much discussion on his Akan lyrics from the point of view of literature. Professor Boadi examines three of Amu’s poems (in Twi) in detail in this paper.
The analysis of the form and depth of meaning in each of the lines and the words used make for very interesting reading.
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Saŋku kɛ Obenta (Ga)
Saŋku kɛ Obenta is a collection of Poems in Ga.
₵15.00Saŋku kɛ Obenta (Ga)
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