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 COLQuartey, 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 TAYHartman, Saidiya V.
Summary: In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, Hartman reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history. The slave,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 HARMahama, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.705 MAHAMA, JOHN DRAMANI MAHContents: 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.
Format: text
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 TAYTaylor, 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 ACQLa Pierre, Yvette.
Summary: Introduces through text and photographs the land, history, government, people, and economy of Ghana.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 966.7 La PierreAyisoba, 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 KINContents: 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 ROUContents: 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
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EMMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Emmanuel's 2005Contents: We be no machine (3:44) -- Mr. Ali (0:16) -- Yenimno (5:12) -- Material microdots (0:26) -- Heynolsay (4:47) -- Digital timeline (0:28) -- Fire (5:13) -- Makoma (feat. Wiyaala) (3:35) -- Smoke screen (1:34) -- Nipa bi (4:15) -- Free up (feat. Morena Leraba, Spoek Mathambo & Syntax) (3:34) -- Safari a muziki (Feat. Pendo & Leah Zawose) (5:31) -- Gamashie choice (feat. Afla Sackey) (0:37) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016
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Summary: "An intelligent and funny debut about a relatable, indomitable heroine: a young seamstress in Ghana who agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept, illuminating what it means to be a woman in a rapidlychanging world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Dankasa -- Ma Nserew Me -- Me Yee Owu Den -- Break through -- Odofo Nyi Akyiri Biara -- Awula Bo Fee Ene -- Live in other world -- Mumunde -- More -- Ne Noya --Afe Ato Yen Bio -- Bgyegye No So -- Neriba Lanchina -- Come along.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Analog Africa 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN AFRAnnan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta)
Summary: With eloquence and immediacy, Annan writes about the highs and lows of his years at the United Nations: from shuttle-diplomacy during crises such as Kosovo, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine to the wrenching battles over the Iraq War to the creation of the landmark Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANNAN, KOFI A. ANNKonKoma (Musical group)
Contents: Lie lie -- Sibashaya woza -- Handkerchief -- Shimmy nashi goro -- Kpanlogo -- Accra jump -- Niebakwa -- Another day -- Yoo eh -- Me-kyin-kyin -- Senture -- Jojo's song.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KONBlauer, Ettagale.
Summary: Presents an overview of Ghana, including its geography, history, industry, economy, and customs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 966.7 BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 ENCMilway, Katie Smith
Summary: Based on a true story, tells of how a poor Ghanaian boy buys a chicken through a community loan program, which eventually helps lift him, his mother, and his community out of poverty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2008