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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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The Come Back
The Come Back is a novel written in an African setting. The book attempts to answer a grave question posed to the author by a former pupil of his who was at the time in her second year in the high school. “Sir,” asked the pupil, “why do people get spoiled when they get to the secondary school?”
Bernard, the protagonist, started well in a quiet, loving and godly home but something happened when he got to high school. What happened? What is wrong with our colleges and college students? How do we explain the peer pressure, rebellion, violence and moral decadence that have engulfed our youth and is collapsing the decent values of our society?
The author seeks to provide the answers as he brings out the issues, the causes and appropriate answers woven into this story in a thrilling, captivating and humorous style.
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Gertrude
She had braved all odds to be in school. Now she was a lawyer and uncircumcised. When, for the umpteenth time, there was an attempted rape on her, she returned to her roots to appease both the living and the dead through circumcision as well as make it difficult for potential rapists to get at her.
Shortly after this irreversible operation, she met and married a man from another ethnic group, an ethnic group that did not want their wives circumcised and stitched up like chicken pudding.
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Nice Things To Remember
What nice things do you want to remember? At home, at school, on the street, in the farm, when you travel, wherever you are, there are nice things to remember.
This book is for all children—to remind you about some of these nice things which you will like to remember
₵35.00Nice Things To Remember
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The Forest Village
Bibi’s life was changed forever when her mother was sacked from their village. As tradition demanded, she was forced to go and live with her father’s family. She found consolation in a forest nearby until something terrible happened.
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Wuthering Heights (Great Stories in Easy English)
Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also, as the Introduction to this edition reveals, one of the most potent revenge narratives. Its ingenious narrative structure, vivid evocation of landscape, and the extraordinary power of its depiction of love and hatred have given it a unique place in English literature. The passionate tale of Catherine and Heathcliff is here presented in a new edition that examines the qualities that make it such a powerful and compelling novel. The Introduction by Helen Small sheds light on the novel’s oddness and power, its amorality and Romantic influences, its structure and narration, and the sadistic violence embodied in the character of Heathcliff.
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A Little Flame of Hope
A trail of unpleasant circumstances usher Ryan Hassan Asaba into the world. His resilient mother braces the tides and defies several odds to raise her disabled son. But when he needed her the most, she vanishes mysteriously. Now alone, Ryan is forced to navigate through the harsh realities of society. But an impending danger was fast approaching. Will his mother return to save him, or will the danger be potent enough to consume them both?
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Adjovi
Age: 12 years and above
Despite being a Form One student poor Adjovi leads her village school to win the coveted first prize in both the Inter-School Debate Competition and in the Inter-District Drama & Culture Competition. But a night before the final competition in Accra which will give her the Visa to visit the White House in America, Adjovi is arrested and taken to a tro-kosi shrine to atone for the supposed crimes of her late father for the next twenty four years. Will she be able to escape from the shrine or from the hands of its uncompromising priests before her mandatory period of servitude to pursue her education and even to the highest level?
‘Written in very simple language, the book is interesting to read. It would serve as a guide to young adolescents and motivates them to air their views frankly without fear, instead of gleefully accepting conditions that are unfavourable for them… the story gives hope and enlightenment.’
Rev. Prof. Philip Arthur Gborsong
Head, Communication Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
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Journey
‘Journey is an absorbing exploration of reality in contemporary Ghana, juxtaposing tradition and modernity, wise old age and frivolous youth, north and south, male and female…as a first novel, it is also valuable as it uses a northern Ghanaian setting.’ – Kari Dako, Author, translator and lecturer, Department of English, University of Ghana.₵80.00Journey
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The Hidden Star
Nolitye lives in a shack with her mother Thembi in Phola, a dusty township on the edge of Johannesburg. She is good at maths and likes collecting stones, which she places in a bucket under her bed. She also has unusual powers: she can communicate with dogs. Nolitye has two close friends, Bheki, who is overweight, and the bespectacled Four Eyes, who join with her to resist the bullying from Rotten Nellie and her gang of Spoilers.
One day, Nolitye finds a special stone that has the power to make people feel happy and laugh. Her mission from now on is to gather together the other pieces of the stone and reunite them, to stop darkness from taking control of her world.
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My Ghost Friend: Man of the night
How would you feel if at age ten you were seeing a strange man in your bedroom at night? This is the story of a 10-year-old boy who was seeing a strange man in his bedroom at nights. Who was this man? And what for heaven’s sake did he want from Nana, the little boy? Read to the end and quench your thirst of curiosity.
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The Pied Piper and Other Tales: An African Retelling
Over the years, parents and teachers have complained about African children reading European fairy tales that do not reflect their culture. It is for this reason that I have done a strike-through in the European title of the story of the girl and the seven dwarfs. These European tales, a patrimony of mankind, have been retold to help assuage these cultural concerns.
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Bolga By Bus
A teenager sets on a long journey to find his father who abandoned his mother more than nine years ago. His journey takes him through the cultural and physical landscape of Ghana. He finally meets his uncle and grandmother. This meeting changes his life.
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Xornam Xonexoe
Kojo Acheampong is thrilled to be going back to school but his first day goes from bad to worse to worst, so quickly that he doesn’t think his final year in primary school will be a good one. However, everything changes when he meets Xornam Xonexoe.
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The Broken Wall
Sixteen-year-old Ama Serwaa Adomako is excited to be spending the holidays with her cousins and her best friend whom she hasn’t seen in five years. But all her plans go awry when she has a falling out with her relatives and friend. She ends up befriending her neighbours, brothers, Paapa and Owura Amofa.
Serwaa hardly believes it when the handsome, stylish, and rich Owura Amofa chooses her to be his girlfriend. She finds out the hard way that Owura isn’t all he seems to be. Is her love enough to change him? Can love change a person?₵60.00The Broken Wall
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