ghana

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ghana

Asafo!

African flags of the Fante
1992
Captioned color photographs and brief text describe the flags of the Asafo, the warrior group of the Fante people of Ghana.

Emmanuel's gift

2005
Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born in Ghana with a deformed right leg, but overcame his disability and became a hero after riding a bicycle across the nation.

Myths and legends from Ghana for African-American cultures

1992
A collection of stories gathered from the folklore of the Ashanti and Hausa peoples of western Africa.

The royal drum

an Ashanti tale
1998
All the animals, except the lazy Monkey, work to make a drum for the King of the Jungle, but Anansi makes certain that Monkey ends up with the hardest job of all.

Master weaver from Ghana

1998
A contemporary male weaver from Ghana explains how his people maintain the tradition of weaving, including an explanation of the strip weaving of Kente cloth and its importance in their Ewe culture.

Anansi time

2006
Storyteller Bobby Norfolk presents modern adaptations of traditional Ghanian tales of Anansi, the trickster spider.

Slavery and reform in West Africa

toward emancipation in nineteenth-century Senegal and the Gold Coast
2004

Kofi Kingston

champ of smackdown
2012
This book tells of the life of professional wrestler Kofi Kingston, who was a fan of the sport growing up in Boston.

Tales of trickery

Folk tales from around the world
1990
A collection of nine folktales involving trickery, including "The Jester Who Fooled a King" from Poland, "Pedro Animala and the Carrao Bird" from Puerto Rico, and "The Tortoise and the Hare" from Ghana.

Tales of an Ashanti father

1989
A collection of folktales from Ghana, centering around the figure of Kwaku Ananse, the spider man.

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