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E-book: All Stories Become Ananse Stories – A Folktale from Ghana
Ananse, the trickster, has a problem…
He is very very clever. In fact, he’s the best trickster of all. But, not enough people know this. Now that, is a problem.
The solution is clear to him—he must own all the stories in the world! But how?
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E-Book: Kenkey For Ewes And Other Very Short Stories
This anthology contains 25 new stories, and 25 ‘old’ stories, which we consider to be some of the best published on the flashfictionghana.com blog. Thus, this anthology is in many ways a natural outgrowth of the work already being done on the blog. These stories carry the spirit with which FlashFictionGhana was born; to use this convenient genre as a way of bringing to life the Ghanaian experience in all its varied facets.
These stories represent the budding creative spirit of the current generation of young Ghanaian writers. These new voices have become the refreshing perspective from which to consider the Ghanaian narrative in a thousand or less words.
Happy reading!
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24 and Gnashing
I don’t know about you, but growing up is scary, confusing and it doesn’t get any better especially if you’re gnashing.
Actually, it is both funny and depressing like forcing a little kid to dance.
But we move on despite the pain, the joy, and rejections towards whatever end.
24 and Gnashing is a journey through the mind of a 24-year-old striding through the defining decade.
It talks about heartbreaks, faith, fear, the joy of friends and family, and maybe hope.
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The God’s Daughter
Jackie Vance and her daughter Ama visit Ghana at the invitation of Mae Brown, an anthropology professor on sabbatical at the University of Cape Coast Ghana. While touring the female slave quarters at Elmina Castle, the largest castle in Africa built by the Portuguese in 1482, Jackie, channelling an Ashanti princess who was captured during the British-Ashanti war, goes into a reverie about the horrifying experiences of the women who lived there several hundred years ago. Jackie was a proud and hot-tempered Ashanti princess called Nana Yaa who was captured during one of the British-Ashanti wars.
₵25.00The God’s Daughter
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Just Between Us: Highly Sensitive Matrimonial Love Letters
If you had the opportunity to write a critical letter to your spouse, what would the content of that letter be, especially if no one else but just the two of you would ever know what you wrote?
In Just Between Us, twenty-four love-constrained people, having travelled several years into their matrimony, write letters to their spouses, revealing top secrets, scandalous confessions, bizarre observations, childish suspicions, irreversible regrets, real fear, unbelievable actions, and even laughable inhibitions – all of them quite shocking and a bit disturbing.
“This is a work of fiction,” admits the author, “the figment of a fertile imagination.” Yet, this product of the author’s thought is so real that it will challenge your own wildest ideas about matrimonial relationships.
You will find the stories in these letters to be highly sensitive and sometimes uncomfortable, but they are unforgettable and deeply touching.
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Mbrɛ Mfantsefo Si Bɔ Apenfo Ho Ban (Mfantse)
This book is about pregnancy ,and how pregnant women can take care of themselves. It also treats types of food which are good for pregnant women.
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A Time to Part
Age Range: 13+ years
The Ayi Kwei Armah Novel 1st Prize” Award Winner, GAW Awards 2018She’s chasing shadows, running from the past. He’ll be there to catch her when she falls.Seven years ago, Jasmine left everything she knew behind. Her mother was dead, her father was terminally ill, and she had broken Hagan, the only man who ever loved her. It was the perfect time to start over. Except she never left any of it behind. When an echo from the past and the search for a killer pull her back into the chaos, she’ll have to decide if letting go is too high a price to pay for her life.This is a story of second chances, of love that survives the worst, and the fight to hold on to the light, in the face of darkness.₵30.00A Time to Part
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The Smooth Illusion
Age: 18+
Set in the city of Accra , a young, beautiful and sensual woman is discharged from a hospital where she was brought in unconscious with blunt force trauma to her head. Alone and penniless on the streets of Accra, she resorts to selling herself to men, oblivious to the fact that dangerous people are out looking for her.
Illustrations available in Black and White
₵30.00The Smooth Illusion
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Notes on Amma Darko’s Faceless
This book, Notes on Faceless, is intended as a study guide for students of Amma Darko’s novel, Faceless. Readers of Faceless go back again and again to this novel because it makes them feel and think about many issues in the book that relate to what happens around them. A good work of fiction allows us to imaginatively participate in what it means to be part of human society. Fiction “holds up a mirror” to us about life. It is therefore important to be able to understand and explain, as well as becomes more alert to how literature works. This book aims to help you do so, focusing on Faceless.
Notes on Faceless discusses what Darko does in Faceless and how she does it: the plot of the story, its setting, characterization, theme and style. Like every other field of study, literature has a special vocabulary that is used by all good students of the subject. Therefore, while discussing the essential elements in Faceless (i.e. plot, setting, etc.), this book also introduces you to some of the important literary terms or technical vocabulary used in reading literature. The goal is to make you familiar with the right language for talking and writing about a work of literature and to teach you how to use this language in your own reading and writing.
This book takes you further into your study of literature by guiding you to use suitable vocabulary to actually talk and write about a work of literature. After walking you through a discussion of each element, Notes on Faceless gives you practice in writing about Faceless in particular and literature in general.
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New Currency: A Historical Novella
New Currency: A Historical Novella celebrates Akan social norms and values, particularly the “wonderful feeling of togetherness” and communal living, uniquely associated with the extended family system and invites the reader to be culturally sensitive and to worry about the Ghanaian culture degradation.
Apart from capturing the chilling, historical realities of the 1979 demonetisation, it successfully regains and celebrates the otherwise fading, but precious extended family values.
In the book, the seasoned author chronicles some aspects of the harrowing military rule of 1979, and narrates the ordeal of a woman about to lose an entire lifetime savings. Specifically, it recounts the widespread commotion and hardships associated with the introduction of a new monetary currency in Ghana from March 13–26, 1979.
The historical novella, set in Sunyani, the Brong-Ahafo regional capital in the same year, captures the widespread public despondency and turbulence associated with the exercise.
The book provides some insight into the period of the country’s history for adults who lived through the turbulence of 1979 as a necessary reminder; and to the present-day youth some awareness of the happenings then.
The thrilling lime green-looking book with yellow and white title inscription on the cover, and thinly opaque adinkra symbols – Mpatapo (knot of reconciliation) and Sesa wo suban (change or transform your life), reflects the theme of the book published by Smartline Publishers.
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The Kaya-Girl
2012 First Place Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature Finalist
“I’m Abena,” I said in Twi.
“I’m Faiza,” she said in a language I would soon find out was called Dagbanli.”
An accidental meeting in Accra’s bustling Makola market makes an impact that is to affect the destinies of two extraordinary young women. For Abena, the open-minded girl from a comfortable family, the meeting is an opportunity to learn about the culture of the other girl and to appreciate the dignity that we often fail to see in the lives of the underprivileged of our country. For Faiza, the eponymous Kaya girl, the encounter with the richer girl is to provide a joyful adventure in her otherwise harsh existence and provided the inspiration that will transform her life.
The Kaya-Girl is a wonderful story, told with warm humor, about two young and confident people from vastly different Ghanaian worlds.
₵38.00The Kaya-Girl
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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.
₵45.00Faceless
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Kenkey For Ewes And Other Very Short Stories
Like a basket full of coloured beads, like a kente strip of many colours, like a xylophone that produces a thousand vibrant sounds, this collection is made up of stories as varied as the diversity represented in Ghana, from Hohoe to Hamle.
These stories represent the budding creative spirit of the current generation of young Ghanaian writers. These new voices have become the refreshing perspective from which to consider the Ghanaian narrative in a thousand words. Or less.
This is an anthology of hope. Never have so many young people captured the stories of our time the way this army of writers have immortalised. But beyond the greatness in the stories, Kenkey for Ewes guarantees one thrilling fact: it is a great time to be a global citizen.
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Silhouettes of a Treasured Heritage (4th Edition)
Silhouettes of a Treasured Heritage is a fictional narrative, which examines the consequence of being a person of racially mixed parentage in our world today. It is a thrilling and critical appreciation of such experiences as told by Miranda the heroine; experiences that will be familiar to many people of similar background.
The novel uniquely and passionately explores issues from both sides of the racial divide. The novel challenges stereotypical perceptions about power and influence, about love and hate.
It is a story of healing, of hope and of promise for a racially divided world. Miranda, in Silhouettes of a Treasured Heritage, takes the reader through her life in Britain, Ghana and the USA. “Am I black or white”, Miranda constantly asks herself. Silhouettes of a Treasured Heritage is a powerful narrative and compelling guide for persons of mixed-race origins embarking on a search of their ancestral routes.
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Victims of Hope
She grows up in a village in Ghana. Efia questions the things around her but she must learn to live with the rich but rigid culture.
When she boards the flight to pursue a law degree at Harvard, little does she know what shocking punches life will throw at her in Boston. She returns home armed with a Law Degree, only to realize there is so much more to life in Africa, than her “book knowledge”.Efia falls for Big Joe. He is a great lover but he comes with great trouble. Is he also dating the only daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Ghana, the ruthless Alhaji Yusif? Alas, Efia is already pregnant.
Alhaji is not one to forgive… He does not.
Ansah, Efia’s brother steps in with a plan. His sister does not deserve this.
The yam that will burn, will burn boiled or roasted.
₵50.00Victims of Hope
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