African Books
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African Books, Kids Story Books
Adventures of Cleopas – Peggy Oppong
When Cleopas Onini was born, he had two front teeth and drank a big cup of porridge. At his naming ceremony, his uncle who had lived on top of a tree for 30 years climbed down to witness the occasion. As the family argued about the appropriate name for the baby, eight-day-old Cleopas sat up in his bed and clapped his tiny hands to show his preference for the name his uncle Ofutu announced. Everybody, including the catechist, took to their heels as they witnessed the strange scene. At three months, he could sit up, crawl and talk.
SKU: 1903A96 -
African Books, Inspirational Books
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ifemelu and Obinze, two young students who fall in love, must part ways with each other while escaping military-reigning Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu struggles with racism and the concept of blackness, despite her academic success. In London, Obinze discovers a dangerous new world as an undocumented immigrant after 9/11. Adichie tackles multiple aspects of race and identity in this thought-provoking novel.
SKU: 1903A35 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
Crocodiles in the Pillow – Peggy Oppong
It is raining and the room gets flooded. As Selasie watches, his eyes nearly pop out of their sockets: Two by two, giant crocodiles swim into the hospital ward.
Men from the Wildlife Department hurl the crocodiles away and he drops back on his pillow with relief but something hits him very hard.
To his horror, there are crocodiles in his pillow. Are they real or imaginary?
Join Selasie on his remarkable adventure.SKU: 1903A95 -
African Books, Inspirational Books
Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions_compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive_for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Offering advice such as teaching a young girl to read widely and recognize the role of language in reinforcing unhealthy cultural norms; encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about appearance, identity, and sexuality; and debunking the myths that women are somehow biologically designed to be in the kitchen, and that men can _allow? women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions is licensed for publication in 19 languages.
SKU: 1903A34 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
End of the Tunnel – Peggy Oppong
She is beautiful and exceptionally brilliant. Born into a happy middle-class family, she appears to have it all. But all that changes when her parents divorce and she, together with her two siblings, are plunged into a nightmare of intense suffering. Her mother comes to the rescue but extreme poverty compels her to put pressure on Sekyiwaa to give up the one passion of her life – a dream to become a pediatrician. She vows nothing will stop her as she fights against surmounting difficulties with dogged determination. She receives a lot of love proposals and a very tempting one from Jeremiah, a handsome undergraduate with lots of money to spend. Sekyiwaa battles with strong emotions, which threaten to derail her cherished plans. Faced with pressures from within and without, will she be able to achieve her dream?
SKU: 1903A100 -
African Books, Inspirational Books
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
he novel follows a 13-year-old houseboy, a professor?s mistress, and a young Englishmen. Their lives are forever changed as Biafra attempts to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, leading to violent events that now stand as part of Africa?s history. With compelling statements on colonialism, class, race, and ethnicity, Half of a Yellow Sun creates an unforgettable look into a historical moment _ and the complexities that shaped it.
SKU: 1903A37 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
Julia’s Dance – Peggy Oppong
In the small town where she grew up everyone expects Julia, the beautiful intelligent and well-brought up young girl, to marry her childhood sweetheart, Michael.
All is going on well till Jude Barimah, Julia’s ex lover, and the only person who is aware of the wild, rebellious spirit lying behind her ladylike exterior, appears on the scene asking for reconciliation.
He convinces her to marry him against her parents’ opposition. Soon after their open antagonism against him, Julia’s mother dies under mysterious circumstances while her father narrowly escapes death.
When Julia later discovers that behind the glamour, glitter and wealth of Jude Barimah lay blood-curdling secrets, he is determined to silence her forever.SKU: 1903A106 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
Laali Saves the King – Peggy Oppong
Laali loves to smile and help people in her village. Everyone loves Laali but only few people have ever heard her voice. The older people of the village call her ‘the silent one’ because she can neither hear nor speak. When two men conspire to kill the king, Laali discovers the plot and exposes them. Everyone is puzzled and wonders how she did it.
SKU: 1903A91 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
No Roses for Sharon – Peggy Oppong
Jabez and Sharon start off as childhood friends. As they grow up Sharon becomes a beautiful young lady with whom Jabez falls madly in love. Just when he decides to propose love to her, a much sought-after young Doctor comes in to sweep her off her feet leaving Jabez shattered. No amount of pleading influences Sharon whose mind is made up as she sees in the young doctor her only door to fame and luxury.
SKU: 1903A105 -
African Books, Inspirational Books
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fifteen-year-old Kambili?s world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
SKU: 1903A38 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
Scars of Love – Peggy Oppong
All her businesses go bust, she suffers physical assault from city officials and loses devoted husband Dwamena. She has only a dream and an unflinching determination to succeed as she grapples with abject poverty while supporting four children. Caught in a cold, heartless city which has no place for losers, Assor is on a losing spree.
With her back to the wall Assor has to make the toughest decision yet of her life: Give up her last and most treasured possession, all her four children, permanently to a wealthy couple.SKU: 1903A113 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
The Angel of Death – Peggy Oppong
Emily loves people and is selfless in her service to the deprived, helpless and suffering masses she encounters daily.
She is called the angel of life, yet at the hospital where she works death stalks. She becomes very depressed. Who is killing her patients?SKU: 1903A104 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
The Black Heel – Peggy Oppong
Everything was going on smoothly for her and the future appeared secured until a shocking betrayal shatters everything Naomi had lived for. In the bleak darkness that follows she is forced to make a choice – to return to the past or wade towards the flickering light that beckoned her.
SKU: 1903A99 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
The Boy Who Became An Ant – Peggy Oppong
Julius lay on the mat shivering with fear as the tall figure approached. It was clear that the catechist was coming for him. When he got closer, the catechist sprinkled powder from a bottle on him. To his horror, Julius realized he has grown six legs, a small waist and a big head. What he feared most had happened to him; he had become an ant.
SKU: 1903A90 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
The Green Sunset – Peggy Oppong
Her father deserted her when she was a baby and her mother, who scratched and scraped to put clothes on her back, was brutally murdered when she was a teenager. By the age of 21, Larley, the much sought-after beautiful lady, had it all – power, wealth, position and fame plus the one gift everyone coveted: Her ability to accurately foretell the future. This earns her several friends and foes.
Larley predicts an unusual spectacle of green sunset and along with it a dramatic change in several people’s fortunes. The fulfillment of this prediction sets in motion a series of events, which leaves everyone gaping.SKU: 1903A112 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
The Lady Who Refused To Bow – Peggy Oppong
After many failed relationships, whether or not Sandra would marry is a hanging question.
Joe, the only man who formally introduced himself to her parents, leaves Sandra for her junior colleague. But after she turns down a marriage offer from the president of a multinational company her life changes foreverSKU: 1903A97 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
The Last Wish – Peggy Oppong
Amzi has it all – great looks, excellent business acumen and a strong determination to fulfill his destiny.
His meteoric rise to fame stuns everyone as he receives universal acclaim for his business innovations, his adoring fans are unconscious of the highly ingenious woman in his life.
Amzi has a debilitating secret fear which drives him to sacrifice everything in his bid to retain his position at the top.SKU: 1903A103 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
The Lemon Suitcase – Peggy Oppong
Her brow was beaded with sweat and her heart was thumping furiously with fear as she watched the gunman standing in front of her, with only a desk separating them. Mabena felt trapped and her night caller knew it.
“Female tiger,” he spat out the words, “you’ve overstepped your boundary this time around.
Bang! Bang! The loud blast rang out in succession and Mabena fell. She miraculously survives the gunshot wounds but hatred for her continues to escalate till it culminates in a grand scheme by her enemies to silence her forever. “I’m the woman people love to hate,” is how Mabena describes herself.SKU: 1903A102 -
African Books, Kids Story Books
The Little Blue Bell – Peggy Oppong
Everyone is worried that Maame Pokua uses her excessive energy to destroy things. But Grandma says all that energy is good if she is trained to use it to do helpful things.
Find out about the good things Maame learns to use her energy for.SKU: 1903A94 -
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African Books, Kids Story Books
The Masquerader – Peggy Oppong
Susan shook her head several times as she stared at Esinam in utter disbelief. Of all the strange tales she was privileged to have heard as she grew up in the city of Accra, none could rival what her daughter narrated.
Kapre is his name. He has no known relative and, somehow, all the people who helped raise him died. His physical features are unattractive and everyone agrees he and ravishingly beautiful Esinam are worlds apart but the two get married against all the odds and the predicted difficulties begin.
Professor Demas, an internationally acclaimed man of God, arrives in the nick of time promising to unravel the mystery. This, true to his word, he does but in an unanticipated manner.SKU: 1903A101
