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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 5 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXWAF21) |
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Bradt Guide Ghana
• Philip Briggs
• Hilary Bradt
• Annabel Milne
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 448 PAGES
A compact, practical guide to Ghana for the traveler with 50 detailed sketch maps, a few color photographs and excellent information on where to go and what to do. It includes helpful information on trip planning, health and safety, with special sections on Mole National Park, the monkeys of Baobeng, the mosques at Larabanga and the eastern highlands.
(WAF27, $26.99) |
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Kwame Nkrumah, The Father of African Nationalism
• David Birmingham
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1998 •
PAPER
• 142 PAGES
A popular biography of the African statesman who championed for independence, won Africans the right to vote and became the president of Ghana in 1960.
(WAF34, $14.95) |
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No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
• Ama Ata Aidoo
ANTHOLOGY •
1995 •
PAPER
• 160 PAGES
A collection of eleven short stories about the lives of women and men in postcolonial Ghana and the tensions between traditional village and urban life. Originally published by Doubleday in 1971, Aidoo's stories emphasize Ghana's prominent oral culture.
(WAF23, $14.95) |
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Born on a Monday, A Photo Documentary of Ghana
• Carrie Brown
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2005 •
PAPER
• 64 PAGES
Carrie Brown documents the people, culture and daily activities of the village of Woe in Ghana in this striking collection of color photographs. Brown was a volunteer with Cross-Cultural Solutions in Ghana from September to March 2003. With accompanying essays by Brown and Cross-Cultural Solutions' Ghanaian staff.
(WAF79, $24.95) |
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
• Maya Angelou
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1991 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
Autobiographical in nature, this book draws on Angelou's experience living in Ghana in the 1960s with a group of Black Americans. Through her powerful prose, Angelou conveys the explores issues of identity and self-discovery. Angelou arrived in Ghana five years after independence during an optimistic time with Kwame Nkrumah as president.
(WAF24, $14.00) |
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Also Recommended
Ghana Map
• ITMB
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A colorful, folded map of Ghana at a detailed scale of 1:500,000.
(WAF37, $12.95)
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Survival Kit for Overseas Living
• L. Robert Kohls
• GUIDEBOOK
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With chapters on cultural baggage, stereotypes and common complaints of American expats, this intercultural classic is perfect for study abroad.
(GEN137, $19.95)
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Captive Passage, The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
• The Mariners' Museum
• Smithsonian Inst.
• HISTORY
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A companion volume to the exhibition drawn largely from the collections of The Mariners' Museum.
(ATL14, $21.95)
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Forests of Gold, Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante
• Ivor Wilks
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A collection of essays that explores the Akan peoples of Ghana and examines the Asante kingdom.
(WAF33, $25.00)
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Onions are My Husband, Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women
• Gracia Clark
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A vivid ethnographic portrait of the women of the enormous open-air Kumasi Central Market in Ghana based on interviews and fieldwork by University of Indiana anthropologist Gracia Clark.
(WAF28, $42.50)
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The Art of Crossing Cultures
• Craig Storti
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Tips for travelers adjusting to a new culture.
(GEN136, $24.95)
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West Africa Before the Colonial Era, A History to 1850
• Basil Davidson
• HISTORY
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Davidson puts the stories of peoples and empires into context in this lively, scholarly history. With maps, illustrations and a timeline.
(WAF07, $60.00)
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Somebody's Heart Is Burning, A Woman Wanderer in Africa
• Tanya Shaffer
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Shaffer's vivid account of a year on the road in Africa, much of it in Ghana, where she worked on building schools and other volunteer projects.
(WAF80, $13.95)
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Changes, A Love Story
• Ama Ata Aidoo
• LITERATURE
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A novel from the multitalented author and playwright, in which the independent Esi Sekyi confronts traditional values in marriage, love, career and family in contemporary Ghana.
(WAF35, $15.95)
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The Narrow Path
• Francis Selormey
• LITERATURE
• COMING IN
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The tale of coming of age in Ghana during British colonial rule in the 1920s. Selormey though his main character Kofi, remembers his family and childhood in Ghana in a fishing village on the Gold Coast.
(WAF81, $11.95)
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The River Where Blood Is Born
• Sandra Jackson-Opoku
• LITERATURE
• COMING IN
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A complex, layered novel following the fate of several generations of women from 18th-century Africa to modern America and Barbados.
(WAF41, $23.00)
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The Seasons of Beento Blackbird
• Akosua Busia
• LITERATURE
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A provocative novel dissecting the issues of marriage and African identity by the daughter of a former Ghanaian prime minister.
(WAF42, $24.95)
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West African Folktales
• Jack Berry
• Richard Spears
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These 123 unembellished tales reflect the rich oral tradition of cultures throughout West Africa, particularly Ghana and Nigeria, where the pioneering Berry did much of his field work.
(WAF13, $21.00)
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