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Of what significance are sacred art objects in Africa? In this book, the author launches an investigation into the grammar of sacred and religious art objects and presents them as encoded language of...

This book of poetry by established and younger writers from Ghana represents a rare effort to compile and publish an anthology of contemporary Ghanaian poems. Some of the writers included are Kobena...

Ghana imports $100 million rice a year, mainly from Thailand and the US, which represents an unsustainable burden on the country's trade and exchange balances; and primary cause of devastation to the...

Did European explorers find it easy in Africa? Ay?l? The Vestal Virgin. A Historical Saga presents a view which is markedly different from the usual narrative that Eurocentric writers portray in...

A long-awaited novel from one of Africa s best regarded writers. He is a poet, but best known as a novelist, original and imaginative. His writing is described as fundamentally African, and...

An annotated bibliography providing a comprehensive update of the growing body of knowledge on gender and the Ghanaian family, encompassing traditional and modern households.Author: Elizabeth...

Gle, a chief priest, abandons his role as custodian and defender of age-old customs to fight voluntarily on the side of the British in the Second World War. When the war ends, Gle and his fellow...

The poems in this book are, thematically, grouped into five sets. The first set of three poems, labelled "Libation," are basically a prayer and they set the stage for what follows. The poems in Part...

One of the challenges facing the continent of Africa is the continued marginalization it experiences in terms of its global political, economic and socio-culutral significance. This book, based on a...

Ghana has a diverse and vibrant media landscape that includes state and privately owned television and radio stations, and several independent newspapers and magazines. This book looks at media...

Coordinated by the West African Organisation for Research on Eweland, this publication constitutes a first and much needed English language survey of the history and cultures of the Ewe peoples in...

The first section of this book covers cartoons produced before the 24 February 1966 coup; and the second section covers cartoons produced after the coup. Within these two sections, the individual...

Little has been written about the Adali (Ada) clan of Ghana, and much of this is scattered among various publications on Ghana and official documents of the British colonial administration. The...