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The Dancing Money Box
Uncle Akuete makes an unusual promise to his two nieces: ‘Save fifty cedis and win a money box which sings and dances.’
Vida and Amanua try to outdo each other to win the prize but toffees, ice cream and contributing money to help pay Grandma’s hospital bills threaten to make it impossible for the girls to win the prize.
When Uncle Akuete arrives with the dancing box, Vida has only thirty cedis while Amanua seems to have nothing. Vida wonders if Uncle Akuete will give the box away for thirty cedis, or has Amanua got secret savings?
Margaret Safo uses the pen name Peggy Oppong and her entertaining stories have delighted children for years.
₵25.00The Dancing Money Box
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Idia of the Benin Kingdom (Our Ancestories)
Age Range: 4 – 12 years
- Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) – 2021 Winner – Best Books for Young Children
- Wishing Shelf Book Award – 2020 Finalist
- Kidsshelf Book Cover Award -2020 Winner
- Eric Hoffer Award – Honourable Mention (Children’s Category) First Horizon Finalist Grand Prize Short List
“She became a queen, a warrior, the first woman to fight for the kingdom, and the first Iyoba (Queen Mother) of Benin.”
What do you know about African History?
African history spans thousands of years, has been moulded by many intelligent artists, scientists, and thinkers, and is bound to fascinate you.
Explore the history of Africa in a way that will be more memorable and enjoyable than what you get from traditional textbooks.
Idia of the Benin Kingdomis an empowering children’s picture book (loved by kids ages 4-12) that takes readers on a beautifully illustrated journey to the 1500s in ancient Africa. Readers are captivated as they watch Idia transform herself from the young and curious daughter of a village warrior to becoming the Queen of the Kingdom of Benin.
Idia was an actual queen who helped rule the ancient kingdom of Benin with her wisdom, charisma, and prowess. Much has been written about her bravery, and artefacts in her image are treasured in museums all over the world.
This book imagines what her childhood may have been like, and shares the story of this well-loved and successful African queen in a way that is relatable to young readers.
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Inside Out: Autobiographical Memoirs
The author recounts a journey that starts in a small town in Ghana, through an academic and professional career in finance in Canada and the United States, culminating at the Ministry of Finance in Ghana where he served as Technical Advisor to three different Ministers of Finance from different political parties.
The memoirs depict the complexities of decision-making that combine technical know-how with political reality using several instances of policymaking and financial transactions that he led at the Ministry. For the technical reader, the author recounts a 25-year history of his involvement in many key initiatives of financial market development in Ghana.
The sweetener in Inside Out is an interesting case study of how to navigate political transitions and maintain relevance as a senior advisor to Ministers in a “winner-takes-all” political environment.
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Bookset: Junior African Writers Series (JAWS) Starters (10 books)
Age Range: 3 – 6 years
JAWS Starters are simple books for young readers in Africa. The series provides interesting stories to encourage children to read for pleasure.
The books are at three levels. Level 1 is for children who have just begun to read by themselves. Level 2 and 3 use progressively wider vocabulary and more complex sentence structures. The language has been carefully controlled at each level to make reading easy. Also, there are pictures on every page to help the pupils follow the story. At Level 1, pupils can follow the story from the pictures alone.
There are activities at the end of each book. If a word in an African language is used in the story, there will be a note of its meaning at the end of the book as well.
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Nuggets for the Unmarried
Are you in search of practical solutions to situations you usually face as an unmarried man or woman? Are you in search of an informative manual to aid you in making the right decisions in your love life? Are you eager to avoid the pitfalls that often leads to complications for many people later in life?
This book responds to all of these questions, with precision, offering you knowledge on:
· How to choose the right partner
· How to make courtship work
· How to manage money, wedding planning, ex-partners, and prospective in-laws
· How to manage heartbreak, addictions and a cheating partner
· How to manage rejection of your choice of partner by family or friends
· How and when to quit a courtship and much more
The tips are practical, straightforward and easy to read.
The wisdom tips have been applied in successfully counselling thousands of unmarried persons across the world. The tips satisfy both gender because the authors—a male counsellor and a female counsellor—have written and tested all the tips from both gender perspectives.
₵30.00Nuggets for the Unmarried
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Art and the Power of Goodness: A Collection of John Agyekum Kufuor (Hardcover)
**Available from 16 June 2021
FOREWORD BY GORDON BROWN, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
There is a strong correlation between art and power and in this book, Ivor Agyeman-Duah, a cultural and literary historian, looks at it from the art collection of the former President of Ghana – John Agyekum Kufuor.
From a matrilineal household in Kumasi that is connected to the visual and palace art in the ancient imperial Kingdom of Ashanti, Kufuor travelled the world from Oxford into the pantheon of great personages and power. Along the way, whether in villages in Ethiopia or among the Maasai in Kenya, across the Maghreb into Morocco, infatuation with the Persia classical period, Ottoman or Asia Minor’s remains of modern day Turkey, northern Lebanon and parts of Greater Asia, some of these acquisitions came by way of gifts and purchases.
They reflect family life and belief, ancient trade relations and routes as well as patterns of contemporary geo-politics. It could be through Benin bronze sculpture with facial stratifications or of metal smelted Malian Islamic crusaders on horseback or a herdsman from a Sahel water well.
These works, seventy of which form the basis of this book with few external ones, include resistance art in the fashion of the ‘empire fights back’ against British West African colonial conflict engagements and resultant Independence.
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A Woman’s Guide to Her Body and Her Total Health: Take Charge of Your Health
A Woman’s Guide to Her Body and Her Total Health has been written by Dr. Barbara Entsuah after practicing medicine for over 30 years. It is to empower women to know about their bodies, what diseases affect it and how they can both prevent these or be knowledgeable about them. It teaches among other things, how to treat minor illnesses like common cold, allergies etc at home for symptom relief and the need to see a health professional if there is no improvement thereafter. It also encourages women to be involved in their own health by knowing about their medical conditions or diseases so that visits to health providers can be meaningful as well as useful.
Both conventional medicines and complementary/alternative medicines are addressed and awareness of medications and what indications they are being used for and side effects of different medicines are also addressed.
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Red Oak Heroes Series: The Big Six
Age Range: 10 – 14 years
When Mintaa and Oforiwaa approach Grandpa Kwame under the mango tree and ask him to tell them about the Big Six, the old man turns off his radio and takes them through events following World War II till the night when Dr. Kwame Nkrumah said “At long last, the battle has ended! And, thus, Ghana, our beloved country is free forever.”
Grandpa Kwame answers all their questions about the identity of the men who are famously known as The Big Six. He also tells them about the contribution each member of The Big Six made towards the fight for independence. Do you know that some of the men died in prison? Mintaa and Oforiwaa now understand why the pictures of these men are on most of Ghana’s currency notes.₵25.00 -
Ma Yensua Mfantse (Kasa na Amambra) Ahyɛse Buukuu 3
Age 9-12 years
Written and edited by a team of experienced Mfantse teachers and experts, this book is structured on the 2019 Standards-Based Curriculum issued by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) of the Ministry of Education. It comprehensively covers all strands and sub-strands outlined in the curriculum namely: Oral Language (Listening & Speaking), Reading, Writing & Composition and Writing Conventions/Usage.
Content is age appropriate and language is carefully selected and reviewed by language consultants to ensure it is suitable for pupils in each grade.
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Ma Yensua Mfantse (Kasa na Amambra) Ahyɛse Buukuu 2
Age 9-12 years
Written and edited by a team of experienced Mfantse teachers and experts, this book is structured on the 2019 Standards-Based Curriculum issued by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) of the Ministry of Education. It comprehensively covers all strands and sub-strands outlined in the curriculum namely: Oral Language (Listening & Speaking), Reading, Writing & Composition and Writing Conventions/Usage.
Content is age appropriate and language is carefully selected and reviewed by language consultants to ensure it is suitable for pupils in each grade.
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Essential Montessori Writing Skills – Nursery 1 (Let’s Write Series)
Suitable for children between 2 and 6 years.
Montessori Literacy Skills (Let’s Read Series) are workbooks designed to provide your ward with engaging exercises and rich activities to encourage the child to use and apply what he/she knows in Literacy to solve problems.
These books are designed to assist the child acquire early English ideas through activities designed to arouse his/her interest and enjoyment.
Children learn by doing with freedom to experiment through their various activities. It is important that even younger children at the nursery level (stage) should also have enjoyment and freedom when working. I, however, encourage Parents, Guardians and Teachers involvement to inculcate in their wards the love for Literacy so as to make them geniuses in the English Subject.
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Essential Mathematics Learner’s Book 6
Essential Mathematics Learner’s Book 6
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Kwadwoan Religious & Moral Education for Basic 2
This is an innovative introduction of children to the indispensable life experience of religion and morality. The book has an interactive interface and is laced with stimulating activities that are meant to appeal to users. This book is like no other as it encourages independent research as a way of acquiring knowledge.
Another of its unique features is the provision of links in the form of QR Codes to ease the search for resources.
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Kwadwoan Mathematics Workbook for Basic 3
Just like the preceding workbooks, this workbook has been developed to provide more practice for learners. As they are based on the topics in the textbook, there is no better way of reinforcing knowledge and skills of Mathematics than to practice with this workbook as it enriches the learning experience.
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My Nightmare
2018 CODE Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature Finalist“As the taxi drove past shacks, shops and buildings; past familiar homes and friends’ stores; past the salon where I was learning to become a hairdresser; past the spot where I sold waakye with Ima; more tears rolled down my cheeks. Zongo was a slum and was notorious for its filth, criminality, and deprivation; yet, this was where i was born. This was home for me. This was where most of my friends were. Whereas people in other parts of Accra saw filth and degeneration in Zongo, I saw love, hope, and beauty. I knew all the good people in Zongo and they were more than the ‘bad’ people I knew. I knew the honest hardworking people in Zongo, many of whom moved from the North to the South in order to build good lives for their children. People like Baba and Ima who left their birth place to come to the South so that their own children would have a good future. Where others saw Zongo as a den of thieves, I saw it as a safe haven. Nobody in this world could man handle me as long as I remained within the safety of its womb.”₵48.00My Nightmare
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