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  • ….and so, She Wrote (A little book of poetry)

    A book of poetry that draws on nature as well as the poet’s personal experiences, conversations and observations, it includes a variety of poems that will elicit tears, laughter and provoke thought

  • …Power to the People: Reflections on Retrogressive Politics

    Published in 1984…Power to the People is a doctor’s medicine for Ghana’s ills. The pill is occasionally bitter, but is coated with a generous layer of therapeutic laughter, to help its message slide gently into the appropriate organs of the national digestive system.

    Presented in the form of prose, poetry and cartoons, the first part of the book, subtitled The Past, covers the Nkrumah, Kotoka, Afrifa & Ankrah, Busia, Acheampong & Akuffo, Rawlings 1979 and Limann eras. The second part, subtitled The Present, covers the first three years of the second coming of Rawlings.

    In a satirical treatment of our history over almost 30 years, this book sheds a great light onto the paths that Ghana traversed in those heady years, in a form that is easy to read, reflect on and learn.

    In the author’s own words, “in recording these…my hope is that others would be induced to ponder over and question loudly some of those short-comings, lapses and omissions in our national character and situation which are stifling our growth and retarding the country’s progress. If our questions get loud and irritating enough to cause discomfiture in our policy makers, then the reader wouldn’t have been bored for nothing.”

  • 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.

    24 and Gnashing

    20.00
  • 60 Aces of Haiku

    In 60 Aces of Haiku, Gabriel Awuah Mainoo does the job of an ace sport photographer. However, Mainoo does not need a camera to create the beautiful images offered in the anthology, he conjures his images from the tip of his pen onto paper using words and makes them come alive in our mind eyes! Each poem in the anthology captures specific moments in court tennis game using a merger of tennis lexicon and images called up from nature.

    The sweet thing about these poems is that one may not need to rack one’s brain working out the mathematical equation of meaning in the poems, as the tennis lexicon that may pose a barrier to meaning are explained off in footnotes; these make the conceits become easily discernible, and they allow the reader enjoy the anthology as he is able to run through the poems with ease. The conceits conjured up in the poems are amazing and amusing at the same time; even when they capture moments of loss in the tennis game.

    Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy, Memorilla Review, Somaliland

  • A Good Mourning

    When a poem is beautifully crafted, images bop up and resonate, lines dance on the page, metaphors grip the reader and one is taken on a voyage of discovery. That was my experience while reading Ogaga Ifowodo’s latest collection of poems, entitled A Good Mourning.

    A Good Mourning

    40.00
  • A Harvest of Our Dreams: With Elegy for the Revolution

    First published in 1984, this is a collection of poems by the award-winning poet and Professor of English Literature.

  • Africa’s Vision: A Second Anthology

    In Africa’s Vision: A Second Anthology, Obaze, who deems himself an accidental poet, takes the reader on a journey of eclectic poems, which in the author’s own words are ‘a convenient special-purpose mechanism for the capturing and demythologization of events and people.’

    Like most poets, Obaze plays on time and space and even abstracts, as if painting far-flung scenes and scenarios on a subliminal, yet illuminating canvas. Accordingly, his poems unmask in very uncanny ways, humanity, complete with observed foibles. As he underlines, “these poems and odes on human foibles, nature, rebirth, and society, are analogous to doodling done over time. In that context, the canvas is rich and the paintings rendered in very vivid colours are exquisitely captivating.

    Africa’s Vision – A Second Anthology, Obaze’s second anthology after Regarscent Past – A Collection of Poems (2015), adds vim to the emerging African voices that resort to poetry to render history and capture events, both sublime and the ridiculous. As the richness of Africa’s oral history and folktales, including moonlight tales, wane, poetry such as this finds both space and salutary coveted niche in Africa’s literary world.

  • Aya

    Okornore is a sorceress of words. And in the worlds she has created in this work, the reader is roller-coastered across places and spaces much deeper than the footprints she had splashed across cultures. The issues she scopes out are scheduled in a time capsule of infinite temporalities.

    Soul! is what screams at you when you journey through page after page of this delicious collection. From the heavenly to the banal, from the questions of our time to the quest of ages, Aya provides a sounding board for what it means to be human. These sweet verses, minted from the heart of a cosmopolitan citizen, secrete mystery and creativity

    Sometimes sassy, sometimes philosophical, Okornore nourishes the desire to read on and connect with a soulful source of erudition.

    Aya is a harvest of possibilities.

    Aya

    60.00
  • Bediako (Asante Twi)

    Nhoma Bediako yi yɛ ayɛsɛm a efa aberante Kwasi Bediako abrabɔ mu nsɛm ho. Kwasi yɛ obi a n’awofo de Onyamesuro ne ɔdɔ tetew no. Osii so no, ɔwaree ababaa fɛfɛ bi a odwo na ɔbɔ ne ho mmɔden yiye nso ne no tenaa ɔdɔ ne asomdwoee mu.

    Sika kakra baa Bediako nsam no, ofii ase bɔ fekuw bɔne. Ɔpam ne yere a ɔne no fii ɔbra ase no kɔfaa sɛbe, ɔbea kohwini bi betoo ne ho so. Ankyɛ Kwasi Bediako nyaa amanne kopuee Nkran afiase. Ne ho fii asɛm no mu no, Kwasi siim sɛ ɔrekɔ Abigyan akɔpɛ paa bi adi wɔ hɔ nanso abɛbrɛsɛ a ɛtoo no ɔkwan mu no amma wankodu hɔ. Ode ne ho kaa wura kɔtenaa Sahwi kwae mu baabi yɛɛ kua. Ɛho nso n’adwuma yɛɛ ɔkwa enti ɔsan n’akyi baa fie. Ɔbra ne Kwasi dii no nwenweennwen nanso akyiri yi na Bediako bɛdan ɔdefo kase.

    Wotintim nhoma yi nea edi kan no, wɔn a wɔhwɛ Ɔman yi adesua so ne akyerɛkyerɛfo pii nyaa ayɛsɛm yi ne ne kyerɛw ho anigye mmoroso. Ne saa nti,wɔpaw Bediako se nhoma a ɛsɛ se sukuufo sua de yɛ ‘G.C.E.’ Twi sɔhwɛ. Nhoma yi mu nsɛm yɛ huam enti ebɛsi nnɛ dodow biara a wobetintim no nso to koraa. Eyi ama Owura Amarteifio asiesie nhoma dedaw no asesa mu ayɛ no kɛse kakra ama wɔatintim pii. Nhoma foforo no ni. Nokwa, Bediako yɛ nhoma a ɛsɛ se obiara to bi to ne sumii ase.

  • Birthing Butler’s Bethlehem Beast

    Birthing Butler’s Bethlehem Beast features poems inspired by experiences, ideas, and pictures from life, love, faith, and time. Not unlike the narrative style of Streams of Consciousness, the author chooses to label her style as more consistent with Streams of Spiritedness. With an eclectic mix of the literal, the whimsical and the downright mystical, these poems will cause the reader to wonder during the process of reading, yet, the soul will find within itself, a place of recognition, moments of familiarity, and the eventual arrival at a point where all the different ideas, no matter how alien, fall into place beautifully and cohesively to form a complete and collective quilt of a melody of words. If anything, these poems are bound to mesmerize, challenge, and inspire more thought upon which the art of poetry can be enhanced and nuanced in beauty and complexity.

  • Book Set: Nana Awere Damoah Books (8 books)

    The full set of Nana Awere Damoah’s 8 books is available now, including his new book Sebiticals Chapter X. Autographed.

    Get the 8 books together for GHS 415 instead of GHS 435.

    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

    Sebiticals Chapter X

  • Chicken Soup for your Soul: Poems and More

    In a deeply captivated form, this masterpiece of creative writing transcends the truly diverse life experiences of an African heroine. Irrespective of stage one’s stage, this unique collection of artistic inscriptions is to be savoured by all, for being highly uplifted, deeply inspired, continually intriguing, and delightfully entertaining. The book is a manifestation of the quest between the Author and her peers, towards not just the youth, but to the benefit of all who are still traveling along the intricating winding of life.

  • Chicken Wings at the Altar

    Chicken Wings at the Altar, seasoned with French translation, is a potpourri of well-seasoned verses recreating events in the now moment with vivid images. It underscores the festiveness in the eerie air of excitement of the Christmas season and beyond, viz New Year. You’ll find before you replay every single happenstances of Christmas including those beautiful sceneries you never thought could be attended to, all well captured in the pristine haiku and senryū forms. — Taofeek Ayeyemi, Editor, Idanre Haiku Review, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

    At times playful, at times painfully poignant, Chicken Wings at the Altar takes familiar images and themes of Christmas and subverts and represents them in ways that both startle and satisfy. The collection captures the contrasting moods and melancholia of the festive period, in sensitively observed, acutely expressed scenes. — Paul Chambers, Editor, Wales Haiku Journal, Newport, Wales

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