Sylvia Arthur, the founder of the Library of African and the African Diaspora in Accra, selects five works by her favourite Ghanaian authors.
is the Pan-African literature lover’s staple. It tells the epic story of 2 000 seasons of precolonial African history, chronicling Arab and European incursion, and African complicity. Armah’s prose is dense and often slow-moving, but the message at the heart of the narrative, and its bold attempt to reframe African history from an African perspective, as active rather than passive, remains a welcome and relevant counterpoint to the prevailing narrative.
Ali uses myth and folklore to give readers a nuanced insight into the characters that make up the Zongo; densely populated, urban areas in which society’s looked-down-on live complex but “normal” lives. Some of the stories are set in Ghana and others in the United States, where Ali is based, offering a complementary mix of realities and perspectives.Bisi Adjapon is a fresh new voice on the Ghanaian scene.
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