Colfer, Eoin
Summary: "Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COLThompson, Laurie Ann
Summary: Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YEBMensah, Bernard
Summary: Eight-year-old Kwame is eager to start Nkonyaa School and learn calabash magic, yet none of the teachers can figure out what kind of magic is in his calabash--but when one of Kwame's new friends is possessed by an evil magic his power is revealed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR BLUE MENQuartey, Kwei.
Summary: Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service--the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. The assignment will last at...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUATaylor, Ebo
Contents: Twer nyame -- Peace on earth -- Atwer abroba.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mr Bongo 1978
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TAYGoka, Ruby Yayra
Summary: Ghana. Eldest of four girls, Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends. She has to accept: her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move to Accra isn't easy, but she soon settles into her new life away from her small village-- until she is raped by the son of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOKMahama, John Dramani
Summary: Set against a backdrop of post-colonial Africa, the vice president of Ghana recounts how he became involved in the nation's political turmoil when his minister-of-state father disappeared during a coup and was imprisoned for over a year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.705 MAHAMA, JOHN DRAMANI MAHAgyemang, Elizabeth
Summary: After telling too many far-fetched tales, Nana Busumuru is sent to spend the summer with relatives in Ghana, where she must join forces with the trickster spider Ananse to prevent an evil corporation from stealing the magic in the village forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Medie, Peace A.
Summary: A seamstress in Gana, Afi Tekple is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she comes to live in Accra, Ghana's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDContents: Maya gari / Bokoor Band -- Egbe enyo / Brekete & the Big Beats -- Atiadele / Mangwana Stars -- Year yeah ku yeah / Bokoor Band -- Onukpa shwarpo / Bokoor Band -- There is time / Bokoor Band -- Trouble man / Bokoor Band -- Onam bebe basa / T.O. Jazz -- Anoma franoas / Oyikwam Internationals -- Now comes another day / Bokoor Band -- Been to / Bokoor Band -- Money in bed / Bokoor Band .
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Otrabanda 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN BOKContents: Gado (3:29) -- Naanigoo (3:20) -- Zambarima-waa (3:02) -- Kulnoli (2:14) -- Damba (3:10) --Gurinsi-waa (2:29) -- Ban nira yelgu (3:06) -- Madadaazie (5:24) --Sikare (4:11) -- Suberima kpeeru (4:14) -- Nayig'-naa zan bundan' bini (2:18) -- Wangarisi-waa (2:07) -- Num bie n-kpan (2:56) -- Kasuan kura (2:39) -- Nantoo nimdi (3:34).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ABDMcFadden, Bernice L.
Summary: "Abeo Kata, a young woman must learn to love and trust again after experiencing the brutality of ritual servitude in West Africa."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFTaylor, Ebo
Contents: Heaven (6:06) ; Atwer abroba (8:15) (Ebo Taylor) -- Victory (Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu) (4:23) -- Ohiani sua efir (Asaase Ase) (4:02) -- Kwaku ananse (Apagya Showband) (3:12) -- Peace on earth (7:48) ; Aba yaa (15:01) (Ebo Taylor) -- Ene nyame nam "a" mensuro (Pat Thomas & Ebo Taylor) (6:20) -- Tamfo nyi ekyir (Apagya Showband) (3:57) -- Love and death (Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu) (8:23) -- Ohye...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strut 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TAYRobinson, Peg
Summary: "Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Ghana." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 966.7 ROBTaylor, Ebo
Contents: Palaver -- Make you no mind -- Abebrese -- Help Africa -- Nyame dadaw.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TAYAcquaye, Saka.
Contents: Sugar soup -- Down the Congo -- Saturday night -- Drum festival -- Concomba -- Beyond Africa -- Congo beat -- Echoes of the African forest -- Bus conductor -- Ebony -- Kenya sunset -- Awuben -- Akudonno.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ACQFra Fra (Musical group)
Contents: Destiny (orphans) -- You can't escape death -- Naked (you enter & leave this world with nothing) -- Helpless (death has taken everyone) -- Good bye -- I will follow you for life, everywhere -- We must grieve together
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitter beat 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN FRAAngoe, Yasmin
Summary: "Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGAyisoba, Albert
Contents: Africa needs Africa / (feat. Wanlov da Kubolor & Big Gad) -- Wekana / (Feat. Zea) -- 1000 can die / (feat. M3nsa & Lee "Scratch" Perry) -- Grandfather song -- Depagara / (feat. Orlando Julius & Zenabu) -- Wine lange / (Feat. Sakuto Yongo) -- Anka yen tu kwai / (feat. Atinbila & Steven Anaho) -- Yalma dage wanga -- Ndeema.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Makkum Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KINWolo, Mamle
Summary: "Fourteen-year-olds Abena and Faiza, girls from vastly different worlds, cross paths in chaotic Makola Market in Accra, Ghana, and forge a beautiful bond that changes the path of each of their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WOLContents: Okin omo ni = The king of the children (I.K. Dairo) -- Maa Jo (King Sunny Ade & his African Beats) -- Funky hi-life (C.K. Mann) -- Asiko (Tony Allen) -- Neribalankina (Captain Yaba) -- Fuji shuffle (Adewale Ayuba) -- Bra ohoho (E.K. Nyame) -- Joromi ; Monkey Yanga (Sir Victor Uwaifo) -- Day by day (E.T. Mensah) -- Matutu Mirika (Eric Agyeman) -- Oyolima (Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe) -- Fakye Me...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ROUGyasi, Yaa
Summary: "Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: 1. Aja Wondo -- 2. Children Don't Cry -- 3. Do Your Own Thing -- 4. Obiara Wondo --5. Waiting For My Baby -- 6. Wope Me a Ka -- 7. Kana Soro -- 8. Gbei Kpakpa Hife Sika -- 9. Loose Up Yourself -- 10. I Beg -- 11. Abrabo -- 12. Say Min Sy Soh -- 13. God is Love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN AFRSummary: Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born in Ghana with a deformed right leg but he beat incredible odds and became a hero after riding a bicycle across the nation, with only one leg. He helped bring political and social change to Ghana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2006