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	Bradt Guide Ghana  •  Philip Briggs  •  Hilary Bradt  •  Annabel Milne GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 416 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)
	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)
	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, $13.95)
	Ghana Map  •   ITMB MAP A colorful, folded map of Ghana at a detailed scale of 1:500,000. (WAF37, $11.95)

	Africa, A Biography of the Continent  •  John Reader   • HISTORY  •  With the ease of a practiced journalist, Reader weaves a lively and masterful tale of the continent from ancient cultures to modern times. Both authoritative and informal, this is a splendid introduction to all of Africa. (AFR49, $18.95)
	Born on a Monday, A Photo Documentary of Ghana  •  Carrie Brown   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Carrie Brown documents the people, culture and daily activities of the village of Woe in Ghana in this striking collection of color photographs. With accompanying essays by Brown and Cross-Cultural Solutions' Ghanaian staff. (WAF79, $24.95)
	Captive Passage, The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas  •   The Mariners' Museum  •   Smithsonian Inst.   • HISTORY  •  A companion volume to the exhibition drawn largely from the collections of The Mariners' Museum. (ATL14, $39.95)
	Forests of Gold, Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante  •  Ivor Wilks   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A collection of essays that explores the Akan peoples of Ghana and examines the Asante kingdom. (WAF33, $25.00)
	Onions are My Husband, Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women  •  Gracia Clark   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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, $37.50)
	The Door of No Return, The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade  •  William St. Clair   • HISTORY  •  St. Clair draws on correspondence, government records, artifacts and ship's logs for this intimate, absorbing history of the British slave trade and portrait of life at Ghana's Cape Coast Castle, a World Heritage Site. (WAF116, $24.95)
	West Africa Before the Colonial Era, a History to 1850  •  Basil Davidson   • HISTORY  •  A history of the rich empires and cultures of West Africa before 1850. Davidson puts the stories of these cultures in a broader, general context. Includes maps, illustrations, and a timeline. (WAF07, $44.60)
	All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes  •  Maya Angelou   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A candid memoir of Angelou's experiences in Ghana in the 1960s, just five years after the country's independence from Britain. (WAF24, $13.00)
	Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape  •  Ann Hugon   • EXPLORATION • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  This jewel of a book chronicles the 19th-century exploration of Africa with hundreds of contemporary paintings and prints, brief chapters on the expeditions, and a very useful chronology. Livingstone, Burton and others are featured in a series of journal excerpts. (AFR03, $12.95)
	Somebody's Heart Is Burning, A Woman Wanderer in Africa  •  Tanya Shaffer   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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)
	Wanderings in West Africa  •  Richard Francis Burton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This account, originally published in 1861, results from a three-year stint in the British Foreign office in Fernando Po, an island off the coast of West Africa. It's a valuable first-hand account of short trips around the West African coast. (WAF12, $19.95)
	West African Folktales  •  Jack Berry  •  Richard Spears   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of 123 unembellished tales, well-chosen and simply translated. It's a good introduction to the spirit of traditional cultures throughout West Africa. (WAF13, $21.00)
	Changes, A Love Story  •  Ama Ata Aidoo   • LITERATURE  •  Aidoo creates a moving portrait of womens' lives in Africa and the problems that are all too familiar in almost every culture. (WAF35, $15.95)
	Middle Passage  •  Charles Johnson   • LITERATURE  •  Winner of the National Book Award, this historical novel, set in 1830, is the richly imagined tale of a recently freed slave in New Orleans who signs aboard a square-rigger bound for Africa. (ATL02, $15.00)
	The River Where Blood Is Born  •  Sandra Jackson-Opoku   • LITERATURE  •  A complex, layered novel following the fate of several generations of women from 18th-century Africa to modern America and Barbados. (WAF41, $12.95)
	The Seasons of Beento Blackbird  •  Akosua Busia   • LITERATURE  •  A provocative novel dissecting the issues of marriage and African identity by the daughter of a former Ghanaian prime minister. (WAF42, $21.95)
	Birds of Western Africa  •  Nik Borrow  •  Ron Demey   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact field edition of Barrow and Demey's comprehensive handbook, covering nearly 1,300 species from Senegal to Congo and featuring 150 color plates. (WAF76, $42.00)
	Birds of Western and Central Africa, Princeton Illustrated Checklist  •  Ber Van Perlo   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An admirably compact, comprehensive guide to 1,500 species throughout Western and Central Africa featuring 109 color plates by Ber Van Perlo. (WAF02, $29.95)
	National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A portable guide to the landforms, wild areas, mammals, birds, reptiles and insects of Africa, featuring contributions by experts and almost 600 color photographs. (AFR25, $23.95)

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