New edition. Fiction winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book. Through a successful blend of extensive, meticulous research and abundant imagination, Herbstein tells the story of a girl's and, later, a woman's life through the horrors of slavery and her growth and battles in the attainment of self liberty. Concerned with the violence of colonial-ism, patriarchy, female sexuality and gendered reproduction, economic production and the site of imperial contest, racial difference and with spirited resistance to it. 456pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PICADOR AFRICA.

A collection of poetry in free verse, reflecting on the neo colonial world order in all its manifestations and celebrating the courage of fellow writers. Notes, 120pp, AUSTRALIA. DANGAROO, 187104927X

A collection of poetry by modern Ghanaian writers including Ama Ata Aidoo, Abena Busia, Kojo Laing, Kobena Eyi Acquah, Kwesi Brew, Kofi Awoonor and Lade Wosornu. Also includes poems by up and coming writers such as Gifty Selorm Odoom, Doris Adabasu Kuwornu, Rex Quartey, David Tetteh, K.O. Kessey and Paul Bingah. Includes notes. 144pp, GHANA. WOELI PUBLISHING SERVICES, 9964978863

A Ghanaian love story about the conflict between the educated and commercial elites in 1970s Accra. 179pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

1978 1974 0435902059 Paperback

The classic story of the life of a railway clerk in Nkrumah's Ghana. 183pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS' SERIES.

Gripping and provocative story of the plight of African women in Europe, and the false hopes of those they leave behind. 140pp, UK African Writers Series, 0435909908

1995 Paperback

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A series of poetic stories for young readers with lively illustrations. 33pp, GHANA. PEDACONS PUBLISHERS, 9988559119

A work of fiction based on historical and personal events in the Cape Coast region of Ghana. This is also a personal description of the people and cultures of the author's home town in Ghana. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs. 98pp, CANADA. TRAFFORD PUBLISHING, 1412026121

Back in Print. A spirited and poignant story about Esi, an independent woman who leaves her husband because he intrudes on her time and space. When she meets Ali, she must decide if she is willing to make the changes necessary for a relationship. Gloss, 200pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

New in paperback. In the mid-1930s, naïve bride Audrey Turton travels to Ghana to join her colonial officer husband. At the same time, fourteen-year-old Matilda becomes the second wife of Robert Bannerman, a Cambridge-educated black lawyer. It is only when the two women’s lives become intertwined that either is able to come to terms with her changed circumstances. Vividly recreates colonial Ghana in the years leading up to independence, contrasting the vibrant life of the Ghanaians with the suffocating formality of the colonial social round club, cricket, Christmas pantomimes. 576pp, UK. SPHERE.

Two dramatic plays which explore the tensions between western culture and traditional African society. In Dilemma of a Ghost, Ato returns from University in the United States with a sophisticated new wife.

The author explores the unstable foundations of their marriage and the fault lines between genders. In Anowa, a young woman defies her parents and marries the man she loves. However, when she assess their long life together, she realises that something vital is missing. 124pp, UK.

Poems reflect the author's experiences in Africa, the USA and Europe. 111pp, GHANA. SEDCO PUBLISHING LTD, 996472070X

One of the earliest African novels, written in 1943, this seminal work criticises colonial administration of justice. Acknowledged as the first novel in English from the Gold Coast, it is an extended allegory extolling the virtues of a large family, honesty, and the rural life. A new edition with an introduction by Kari Dako, who has edited and annotated the original manuscript. 163pp. GHANA. SUB-SAHARAN PUBLISHERS.

Debut publication from a young Ghanaian performance poet. 28pp, GHANA. FLIPPED EYE PUBLISHING LTD, 9988002467

2001 PAMPHLET

A novel about the choices women are forced to make in return for material possession, enriching their families and their husbands. 231pp, GHANA. SUB-SAHARAN PUBLISHERS, 9988550502

An engaging history of Ghana's enormously popular concert party theatre. According to Karin Barber it '...succeeds in conveying the exciting and fascinating char-acter of the concert party genre, as well as showing clearly how this material can be used to rethink a number of contemporary theoretical themes and issues.' 3 maps, 26 b/w photos, bib, index, x, 196pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

In her inimitable sense of style and eloquence, Aidoo explores love, marriage and relationships with all the issues they throw up for the contemporary African woman. In doing so, she manages to capture the very essence of womanhood. The new Heinemann edition includes previously unavailable stories. 112pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

A small poetry collection, 60pp. UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS.

Set in the 19th century, this classic of African literature describes a background of disunity among the Asante as the colonising powers move into Ghana. A group of people called the Healers seek to cure these divisions. 309pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

Story about Gle, who as the chief priest, is the keeper of traditional values and customs, but decides to fight in Europe during the Second World War. His actions bring into conflict his roots and the foreign values he admires. 86pp, GHANA. WOELI PUBLISHING SERVICES, 9964978855

A story of exploitation in modern Ghana, as several women are caught in a web of superstition, ignorance, greed and corruption. 107pp, UK. African Writers Series.

New collection of poems from the Ghanaian-born poet. 86pp, UK. PEEPAL TREE.

Promised a handsome reward of tobacco and 'todzihawo', Pasato a glib well-travelled man zealously convinces his compatriots to agree to perform Novishi and Kedzeanyi halo drums on board ships at anchor off the shore of Dzita. This is against opposition from a savage, pagan, primitive and backward few. Pasato, however, succeeds. But what gratification does he get from his tireless efforts? 376pp, GHANA. GHANA U P.

Novel that takes its principal characters through various historical moments - wars, the Slave Trade, colonialism and post-colonialism - to show that regardless of their skin colour and cultural differences, they make friends or fall in love secretly during these encounters. 252pp, GHANA. SUB-SAHARAN PUBLISHERS.

The story of Efua, a young South African woman who takes a job as a computer programmer in a diamond mines and finds herself the centre of a modern eco-thriller. BNS, 111pp, GHANA. SUB-SAHARAN PUBLISHERS, 9988550340

Armah's seventh novel plunges into history as the narrator Lindela translates secret hieroglyphic texts left by migrant Egyptian scribes millennia ago. As her work progresses, old questions animate her own urgent search for knowledge of self and society. Through her story, Armah asks how Africa's multimillenial history can be best understood, and why did the society that invented literacy, sink into the misery of illiteracy, ignorance and religion. 350pp, SENEGAL. PER ANKH PUBLISHING, 2911928067

Presents and contextualises what was probably the first West African novel in English. The anonymous writer's story critiques the Christian, Victorian model of mar-riage imposed on Africans, and was originally serialised in 40 episodes in a Ghanaian newspaper between 1886 and 1888. Notes, bib, index, x, 146pp, NETHERLANDS. EJ BRILL, 9004121862

A satire set in Ghana

'Packed with telling portraits ... this inventive, irreverent book is as sharp as a quince and richly satisfying.' - The Sunday Times. 182 pp. UK. African Writers Series, 0435901613

Ify is sexually harassed at work, and pressurized by her husband Idika to quit, as a result. The novel describes their experience coping with this difficult situation. 73pp, GHANA. WOELI PUBLISHING SERVICES.

Eleven short stories showing conflicts in rural and urban Ghana. Includes the works Everything Counts, The Message, Certain Winds from the South, A Gift from Somewhere, Two Sisters and Something to Talk About on the Way to the Funeral. 134pp, USA. FEMINIST PRESS, 1558611193

A new novel from a scion of the new generation of writers in Africa. She tells the story of women in Africa: here it is misery, pain, agony , dilemmas, and frustrations. She floats the reader on a world of inverted reality, which yet becomes the norm. With creative imagination, confronting the social realities, she seeks out the world of peace and tranquillity. But not without verisimilitude. The extremes of moral turpitude beget horrid outcomes, leaving suspense rather than resolu-tion. 369pp, GHANA. SUB-SAHARAN PUBLISHERS.

The story of a young Ghanaian woman's visit to Germany and her journey of self_discovery. This prose poem is a personal exploration of the conflicts between Africa and Europe. 134pp, UK. PEARSON EDUCATION. 2004 1998 1994 0582308453 Paperback

Set primarily on the fictitious Zongo Street - a close-knit community of wonderfully quirky characters who hold tight to superstition, religion and family - these stories are anchored by the uproarious, the embarrassing, the poignant and the rawest moments of life. 212pp, USA. AMISTAD.

After the death of Uncle Jacob, the man who oversaw his education and passage to Canada from Ghana as a penance for having betrayed his father, Samuel inherits his crumbling house. In a moment of triumph, Samuel quits his desperately boring civil service job, and convinces his grudging family to take up residence there. His wife and his odd silent twins reluctantly agree and begin to resurrect the house from the weeds, mould and decay. The deep rot is not only in the house. Their new town also has some very dubious characters. But the real strangeness, if not madness, resides in his very family. 278pp, UK. VIRAGO.

Revised Edition. The play depicts the lifestyle of an African family in a rural setting, whose tensions and frustrations are highlighted when the main character, Bimpo returns from foreign exploits. 30pp, GHANA. SEDCO PUBLISHING LTD, 996472232X

2003 Paperback

Novella centered around the Krobo custom of dipo rites. Gloss, 27pp, GHANA. WOELI PUBLISHING SERVICES.

2002 9964978731 Pamphlet

When Kortuma succeeds his father, Chief Gbolokai as Chief of Fuama he mobilises forces to attack Golaland, the traditional enemy. 172pp, GHANA. SEDCO PUBLISHING LTD, 9964721749

Mensa endures his Ghanaian childhood under the shadow of successive tyrannical headmasters. In his maturity he struggles with the trials that village jealousies and his own family set for him. 279 pp. UK. African Writers Series, 0435900412

1968 Paperback

Revised Edition. A short play describing the joys, frustrations, and aspirations of an African priestly family. 34pp, GHANA. SEDCO PUBLISHING LTD, 9964722338

Winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best Book in the African Region. Unravels the secrets surrounding the death of an Accra prostitute. Framed around a court case involving Manu, a respectable and wealthy businessman, it is a gripping tale of murder, courtroom shenanigans, and intense societal conflicts. The novel explores themes and tensions of familial and traditional commitments, individual freedom, marriage and love, and class exploitation in a country still grappling with the heavy legacies of the colonial experience. USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

A collection which reflects the mood of many other Ghanaian writers at the beginning of the twenty-first century, whose works speak against images of Africa and Africans at home and in the diaspora, images that denigrate both the continent and its scattered children. 106pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Published to celebrate the 80th birthday of the late social worker and widow of the Ghanaian lawyer and statesman, Joe Appiah. vii, 47pp, GHANA. ISAG

This book '... is predicated on the fulfillment of one of the social functions of literature: the visionary reconstruction of the past for the purposes of a social direction. In Armah's work there is no ambivalence of intent, nor of historical reconstruction.' - Wole Soyinka. 206 pp. UK. Africa Writers Series, 0435902180

1979 Paperback

Fictional account of migration, identities and lives undermined by cynical and xenophobic politics pushed to their logical and terrible conclusion in the Ghanaian orders of 'alien compliance' issued in 1970-1971, designed to force all non-ethnic Ghanaians, so called illegal immigrants, to return 'home'. 319pp, GHANA. SUB-SAHARAN PUBLISHERS.