AfroBibliography

GHANA BIBLIOGRAPHY (to be edited soon)

Muhammed ben Abdallah

Ananse and the Golden Drum. (Play for children) Woeli Public Services. 1994.

Joseph Wilfred Abruquah

The Catechist. 1965.

Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty (with Kofi Awoonor) eds.

Messages: Poems from Ghana. London UK: Heinemann. 1971.

Kofi Ermeleh Agovi

Novels of Social Change. Ghana: Ghana Publishing Corporation. 1988.

Christina Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-)

The Dilemma of a Ghost. (Play) (1964; 1965 London UK; Accra: Longmans) 1987.
Anowa. (Play) Harlow UK: Longmans. 1970.
No Sweetness Here. (Short Stories) (1970 Harlow UK: Longmans) New York NY: New York Feminist Press at the City University of New York. 1995.
Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections of a Black-eyed Squint. (Novel) (1977; 1981 Longmans) Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. 1998.
Someone talking to Sometime. (Poetry) Harare: Zimbabwe College Press. 1985.
The Eagle and the Chickens and Other Stories. (Short Stories) Harare: Zimbabwe College Press. 1987.
Changes: a Love Story. (Novel) (1991 London UK: Women’s Press) Feminist Press. 1993. [1993 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa Region]
An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems. (Poetry) Coventry UK: Dangaroo Press. 1992.
The Girl Who Can and Other Stories. (Short Stories) 1997.

Antonius G. Amo (with Ioannes Latinus and Jacobus E. Capitein)

First African Authors to Write in Latin. Periodicals Service Company.

Kofi Anyidoho

Earthchild, with Brain Surgery. (Poetry) Woeli Publishing Services. 1985.
A Harvest of Our Dreams / Elegy for the Revolution. (Poetry) (1985 Heinemann AWS) Woeli Publishing Services. 1985.
Ancestral Logic and Caribbean Blues. (Poetry) (1993) Africa World Press. 1995.
The Pan African Ideal in Literatures of the Black World. Ghana University Press. 1989.
Interdisciplinary Dimensions of African Literature.

Kofi Anyidoho, ed.

The World behind Bars and the Paradox of Exile. Northwestern University Press. 1997.

Kofi Anyidoho (with Anne V. Adams and Abena P. Busia) eds.

Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life. Africa World Press. 1999.

Kofi Anyidoho (with Musaemura Zimunya and Peter Porter) eds.

Fate of Vultures: New Poetry of Africa. (Poetry)

Kofi Anyidoho (with James Gibbs) eds.

FonTomFrom. Contemporary Ghanaian Literature, Theatre and Film (Matatu 21-22). Editions Rodopi BV. 2000.

Peggy Appiah (1921-)

Ananse the Spider: Tales from an Ashanti village. New York NY: Pantheon. 1966.
The Pineapple Child and Other Tales from Ashanti. (1969 London UK: Evans) André Deutsch. 1995.
Yao and the Python. (1970) London UK: Evans. 1971.
The Lost Ear-ring. (1970) London UK: Evans. 1971.
A Smell of Onions. Longman. 1971.
Why the Hyena does not care for Fish and Other Stories from the Ashanti Gold Weights. London UK: André Deutsch. 1971.
Why there are so many Roads. Lagos: African University Press. 1972.
Gift of the Mmoatia. Accra: Ghana Publishing. 1972.
Ring and Gold. London UK: André Deutsch. 1976.
The Children of Ananse. (1968) London UK: Evans. 1985.
Tales of an Ashanti Father. Boston MA: Beacon Press. 1989.
The Twins. Accra: Quick Service Books. 1991.
Abena and the Python. Accra: Quick Service Books. 1991.
Kofi and the Crow. Accra: Quick Service Books. 1991.
Afua and the Mouse. Accra: Quick Service Books. 1991.
Kyekyekulee, Grandmother’s Tales. Accra: Quick Service Books. 1993.
Busy Body. Accra: Asempa. 1995.
The Rubbish Heap. Accra: Asempa. 1995.
Rattletat. New Namibia Books. 2000.

Frederick S. Arkhurst (ed.)

US Policy Towards Africa. New York NY: Praeger. 1975.

Africa in the Seventies and ...

Ayi Kwei Armah

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. (1968 Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin; 1969, 1988 London UK: Heinemann) London UK: Heinemann 1992.
Two Thousand Seasons. (1973 Nairobi: East African Publishing House) Third World Press. 1980.

Why Are We So Blest? London UK: Heinemann. 1974.

Fragments. (1970 Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin) London UK: Heinemann. 1974.
The Healers. (1978 Nairobi: East African Publishing House) London UK: Heinemann. 1979.
Osiris Rising: A Novel of Africa Past, Present and Future. Popenguine, Senegal: per Ankh. 1995.

Kwesi Armah

Africa’s Golden Road. London UK: Heinemann. 1965.

Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe
Bediako Asare

Rebel. London UK: Heinemann AWS. 1969.

Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor

Africa, the Marginalised Continent.

Ghana: A Political History from Pre-European to Modern Times.
This Earth, My Brother. 1972.
Night of My Blood.
Ride Me, Memory.
Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry.
Breast of the Earth. A Survey of the History, Culture and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara. NOK Publishers. 1983.
Until the Morning After: Selected Poems, 1963-1985. Greenfield Review Press. 1987.
Comes the Voyager at Last. A Tale of Return to Africa. Africa World Press. 1992.
The Latin American and Caribbean Notebook. Vol. 1. (1992) Africa World Press. 1993.
Fire in the Valley. Ewe Folktales. 2002.

Kofi Awoonor (with G. Adali Mortty) eds.

Messages: Poems from Ghana. 1971.

Kwakuvi Azasu

Streams of Thought: A Collection of Poems. (Poetry)
The Stool.

Christine A. Botchway

When the Broken Sing.

Friends of the Forest. Ghana: Ghana Publishing Corporation. 1991.
Where Children Play. Macmillan Educational. 1992.
Spears Down.
Miracle in the Land. Macmillan Education. 1996.
A Dream Called September. Macmillan Education. 1997.
The African Teapot. (Junior African Writers Series, Level 3) Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks 1997.

Christine A. Botchway (with Kalu Okpi)

The Jasmine Candle (Heartbeats). (Novel, Young Adult) Chelsea House Publishing. 1994.

Kwesi Brew

The Shadows of Laughter. (Poetry) Longmans. 1968.

African Panorama and Other Poems. (Poetry) Greenfield Review Literary Centre. 1981.
The Clan of the Leopard and Other Poems. (Poetry).
Return of No Return and Other Poems. Afram Publications. 1995.

Abena P.A. Busia

Testimonies of Exile. (Poetry) Africa World Press. 1990.

Abena P.A. Busia (with Stanlie M. James) eds.

Theorizing Black Feminisms. The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women. Routledge. 1993.

Abena P.A. Busia (with Kofi Anyidoho and Anne V. Adams) eds.

Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life. Africa World Press. 1998.

Kofi Abrefa Busia

Africa in Search of Democracy. London UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1967.

Joseph E. Casely-Hayford

Ethiopia Unbound. (Novel) (1911) BCP Books. 1998.

Specimens of Bantu Folklore from Northern Rhodesia. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1969.
West African Leadership. Frank Cass Publications. 1969.
Gold Coast Native Institutions. Frank Cass Publications. 1970.
Truth about the West African Land Question. Frank Cass Publications. 1971.

Joseph Boakye Danquah

Ghanian Establishment: Its Constitution, Its Detentions, Its Traditions, Its Justice and Statecraft, and Its Heritage of Ghanaism. Ghana Universities Press, 1997.

Amma Darko

Beyond the Horizon. Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks. 1995
The Housemaid. (1998 Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks) Greenwood Publishing Group. 1999.

Joe de Graft

Muntu. (Play) [ASIN: 0435902644]

Michael Francis Dei-Anang

Ghana Resurgent. Waterville Publishing House. 1964.

Wayward Lines from Africa: A Collection of Poems / Cocoa Comes to Mampong / Africa Sings. (Poetry) Periodicals Service Company. 1970.
The Administration of Ghana’s Foreign Relations, 1957-1965: A Personal Memoir. ICS/Athlone Press. 1974.

Michael Francis Dei-Anang (with Dennis C. Osadebay)

Early West African Poetry and Drama. Periodicals Service Company. 1952.

Michael Francis Dei-Anang (with Yaw Warren)

Ghana Glory – Poems on Ghana and Ghanaian Life. Nelson. 1965.

Amu Alexander Djoleto

The Strange Man. Heinemann. 1968.

Money Galore. Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks. 1975.
Amid the Swelling Act Haps. Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks. 1992.
The Frightened Thief. (Junior African Writers Series, Level 1) (1992 Heinemann) Chelsea House Publishers. 1994.

Twins in Trouble. (Junior African Writers Series, Level 1) (1991 Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks) Chelsea House Publishers. 1994.
Kofi Loses his Way. (Junior African Writers Series, Level 1) Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks. 1995.
Hurricane of Dust. (1988 Longman) Dearborn Financial Publishing. 1995.
The Girl Who Knows about Cars. (Junior African Writers Series, Level 2). Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks. 1996.
Akos and the Fire Ghost. (1998) Afram Publishers (Ghana). 2000.
West African Prose.

Cameron Duodo

The Gab Boys. (Novel) (1967 London UK: André Deutsch; 1969 London UK: Collins / Fontana Books) London UK: Fontana Books. 1971.

Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa the African)

Equiano’s Travels. (Ed. Paul Geoffrey Edwards) Heinemann. 1990.
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings. (Ed. Vincent Carretta) Viking Penguin. 1995.
The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. (Ed. Paul Geoffrey Edwards) Dearborn Financial Publishing. 1995.
Equiano’s Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. (Ed. Paul Geoffrey Edwards) (1995 Addison Wesley Longman) Heinemann. 1996.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. (1789) (Ed. Robert J. Allison) St. Martin’s Press 1997.
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudiah Equiano. (Ed. Ann Cameron) Vintage Books. 2000.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. (Ed. Robert J. Allison) (1995; 1997) St. Martin’s Press. 2000.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. (Ed. Werner Sollors) Norton W.W. 2000.

The Waste Land (ed. Werner Sollors) Norton, W.W. 2000.

Olaudah Equiano (with Claudah Equiano)

The African. X Press. 1999.

Aliu Babs Fafunwa

A History of Education in Nigeria. London UK: George Allen & Unwin. 1974.

Aliu Babs Fafunwa (with Juliet Iyabode)

Education in the Mother Tongue: A Nigerian Experiment. University Press, Nigeria. 1989.

Albert William Kayper-Mensah

The Dark Wanderer. Tübingen DE: Horst Erdmann Verlag. 1970.
Sankcfa: Adinkra Poems. (1976) Accra: Ghana Publishing Corporation. 1978.

Albert William Kayper-Mensah (with Horst Wolff) eds.

Ghanaian Writing: Ghana as seen by her own writers as well as by German authors. Tübingen DE: Horst Erdmann Verlag. 1972.

Ellis Ayitey Komey (with Ezekiel Mphahlele) eds.

Modern African Stories. (1964) Faber & Faber. 1966.

B. Kojo Laing

Search Sweet Country. (Novel) (1986 London UK: Heinemann; New York NY: Beach Tree Books; Boston MA: Faber & Faber; 1987 New York NY: Beech Tree Books / William Morrow; London UK: Picador) London UK: Picador 1989.
Woman of the Aeroplanes. (Novel) (1988 London UK: Heinemann) London UK: Picador; New York NY: William Morrow. 1989.
Godhorse. (Poetry) Oxford UK: Heinemann International. 1989.
Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars. Heinemann AWS. 1992.

Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia

African Music in Ghana. Longmans. 1962.
Folk Songs of Ghana. Legon: University of Ghana. 1963.

Our Drums and Drummers. Accra: Ghana Publishing House. 1968.
Ethnomusicology in Ghana. Accra: Ghana Universities Press. 1970.
The Music of Africa. (1974 New York NY: W.W. Norton; 1975 London UK: Victor Gollancz) London UK: Victor Gollancz. 1988.

Funeral Dirges of the Akan People.

Kwame Nkrumah

Class Struggle in Africa.

Selected Speeches.

Voice from Conakry [Broadcasts to the people of Ghana made in Conakry between March and December 1966 on Radio Guinea’s "Voice of the Revolution"]
Africa Must Unite. (1963 Brill Academic Publishers; 1970, New York NY: International Publishers) New York NY: International Publishers. 1980.
Dark Days in Ghana. London UK: Zed Books; St. Martin’s Press. 1968.
Challenge of the Congo. A Case Study of Foreign Pressures in an Independent State. New York NY: International Publishers. 1967.
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization and Development with Particular Reference to the African Revolution. (1964, 1966 London UK: Heinemann; 1970) Monthly Review Press. 1990.
Towards Colonial Freedom: Africa in the Struggle against World Imperialism. Brill Academic Publishers. 1973.
Revolutionary Path. New York NY: International Publishers; Brill Academic Publishers. 1973.
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. (1957; 1961 Edinburgh UK: Thomas Nelson; 1967 New York NY: Thomas Nelson) London UK: Panaf; Brill Academic Publishers. 1973.
The Struggle Continues: six ... pamphlets.
I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology. (1961 London UK: Heinemann; 1962 New York NY: Praeger Paperbacks) Brill Academic Publishers. 1973.
Rhodesia File.
Peace! The World from African Eyes: Address by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah President of the Republic of Ghana to the 15th. Session of the United Nation’s General Assembly, September 23, 1960. Chicago IL: Afro-American Heritage Association. 1960. [Introduction by W.E.B. Du Bois]
Spectre of Black Power. London UK: Panaf. 1969.
Neo-Colonialism. The Last Stage of Imperialism. New York NY: International Publishers. 1976.
Statement by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah President of the republic of Ghana, on Certain Aspects of African Unity. Accra: Government printing Department. 1962.
Hands Off Africa! Accra: Kwabena Awusu-Ayem.
Sekou Toure. London UK: Panaf. 1978.
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution.
Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah; Freedom Fighters’ Edition. (1967; 1969) London UK. Panaf Books. 1980.

John D. Atukwei Okai

The Anthill in the Sea: Verses and Chants for Children. (Poetry)
Logorligi Logarithms and Other Poems. (Poetry) Ghana Publishing London. 1974.

Rev. Carl Christian Reindorf

History of the Gold Coast and Asante based on Traditions and Historical Facts comprising a Period of more than Three Centuries from about 1500 to 1800. (1895) (Switzerland: Basel Mission Book Depot) Ghana Universities Press. 1966.

John Mensah Sarbah

Fanti Law Report. London UK: William Clowes. 1904.

Fanti National Constitution: A Short Treatise on the Constitution and Government of the Fanti, Asanti and other Akan Tribes of West Africa. Together with a Brief Account of the Discovery of the Gold Coast by Portuguese Navigators .... (1906) Frank Cass Publishers. 1968.

Kobina Sekyi (William Esuman-Gwira Sekyi) (with Ayu Langley)

The Blinkards. (Play) (1974 Brill Academic Publishers; London UK: Rex Collings) Heinemann AWS.

Francis Selormey

The Narrow Path: An African Chidhood. (1966 New York NY: Frederick A. Praeger; 1967 Westport CT: Heinemann AWS; 1987 London UK: Heinemann; 1990 Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks) Macmillan Heinemann ELT. 1992.

Efua Theodora Sutherland

Playtime in Africa. (Poetry) (1960 London UK: Brown Knight and Truscott) New: Atheneum. 1962.
You Swore an Oath. Présence Africaine. 22. Summer 1964.
Foriwa. (Play) Tema, Ghana: State Publishing Corporation. 1967.

Odasani. (Play) Accra: Anowuo. 1967.

Vulture! Vulture! [and Tahinta]: Two Rhythm Plays. Plays for children) Accra: Ghana Publishing. 1968.
Anansegoro: Story-telling Drama in Ghana. Accra: Afram. 1975.
The Marriage of Anansewa. (Play) London UK: Longman, 1975.
Edufa. London: (Play) (1967 Longmans Green) Washington DC: Three Continents. 1979.

The Voice in the Forest. New York NY: Philomel. 1983.
The Marriage of Anansewa and Edufa: Two Plays. (Play) (1987 Harlow UK: Longman; 1990 Longman Publishing Group) Longman; Dearborn Financial Publishing. 1995.

Efua Theodora Sutherland ((with Willis E. Bell)

The Roadmakers. (1961 Accra: Ghana Information Services) London UK: Newman Neame. 1963.
The Original Bob: The Story of Bob Johnson, Ghana’s Ace Comedian. Accra: Anowuo. 1970.

Asiedu Yirenkyi

Kivuli and Other Plays. (Plays) London UK; Exeter NH: Heinemann AWS. 1980.