WEST AFRICA
Ghana   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $66, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXWAF18)		  
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)		   Bradt Guide Ghana
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)		   Kwame Nkrumah, The Father of African Nationalism
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)		   No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Ghana Map  •  ITMB
2011 •  MAP
A colorful, folded map of Ghana at a detailed scale of 1:500,000. Two Sides. 27x39 inches. (WAF37, $12.95)		   Ghana Map



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Ho 2009, Volta Region, Ghana West Africa  •  Carrie Brown  •  Asogli State Council   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This guide to the Ho Municipality of Ghana by Cross-Cultural Solutions volunteer Brown includes fact sheets, maps, photographs and cultural and economic background. (WAF147, $10.00)
 		  
Africa, A Biography of the Continent  •  John Reader   • HISTORY  •  With the ease of a practiced journalist, Reader weaves a masterful and lively 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, $21.95)
 		  
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, $42.50)
 		  
Saltwater Slavery, A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora  •  Stephanie E. Smallwood   • HISTORY  •  Smallwood offers a clear, engaging study of Slavery and the Middle Passage, drawing upon journals, narratives and letters from slaves transported in harsh conditions across the Atlantic. (WAF115, $19.95)
 		  
Spellbound, Inside West Africa's Witch Camps  •  Karen Palmer   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Also including a history of Ghana under British rule, Palmer investigates the pervasive influence of the spirit world and the phenomenon of exiling women to remote colonies in the north in this gritty report. (WAF152, $25.00)
 		  
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 logs for this intimate, absorbing history of the British slave trade as seen through life at Ghana's Cape Coast Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Although focused on Ghana, this is an essential record of the transatlantic slave trade. (WAF116, $15.95)
 		  
West Africa Before the Colonial Era, A History to 1850  •  Basil Davidson   • HISTORY  •  Davidson puts the stories of peoples and empires into context in this lively, scholarly history. With maps, illustrations and a timeline. (WAF07, $61.80)
 		  
Indigo, In Search of the Color That Seduced the World  •  Catherine E. McKinley   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  The descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan, whose ancestors on her father's side were traded along the same Saharan routes as indigo, McKinley brings her own history to this quest to unravel the signficance of this noble dye to West Africa and the world. (WAF155, $27.00)
 		  
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, $14.00)
 		  
Lose Your Mother, A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route  •  Saidiya Hartman   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An African American herself, Berkeley professor Hartman retraces the trail of captives from the Atlantic coast to the hinterlands of Ghana, probing both her own history and the imact of slavery on 300-years of African and African American history. (WAF145, $14.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Changes, A Love Story  •  Ama Ata Aidoo   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 		  
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 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, $24.95)
 		  
West African Folktales  •  Jack Berry  •  Richard Spears   • ANTHOLOGY  •  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)
 		  
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, $45.00)
 		  
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. (WAF02, $29.95)
 		  
National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This comprehensive photo guide covers 850 birds, mammals and reptiles of Africa. With range maps and a good country-by-country overview of habitats and parks. (AFR25, $24.95)
 		  
 
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