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1 online resource |
| Contents |
No Wings / Frank Ernest Kobina Parkes ; Preface to Second Edition: Voices of Ghana: a Wealth of Good to Ghana's Cultural Heritage / Mustapha Abdul-Hamid ; Foreword to Second Edition: Voices of Ghana: Behold! The Glorious Origins of It All! / Atukwei Okai ; Introduction to Second Edition: Three Years Catch in The Singing Net: creating Voices of Ghana / Victoria Ellen Smith ; A Note of History / Henry Swanzy (1957) ; Should I Ever ... / Israel Kafu Hoh |
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The Countryside. Akan. The Poetry of Drums / Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia ; Across the Prah / Andrew Amankwa Opoku ; The Tale of Ananse and Twala the Thief / T.C. Aninfeng ; Ananse's Punishment / J.K.O. Lindsay ; Ohia and the Thieving Deer / J.V. Mensah ; 'The Iron Bar' / C.V. Hutchinson ; Drum Proverbs / Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia ; Afram / Andrew Amankwa Opoku ; A Fisherman's Day / Samuel K. Otoo ; Komenda Hill / Bossman Laryea ; Ahanamanta (Harmattan) / Joseph Ghartey (Kobena Gyata Akwa) ; Mami Takyiwa's Misfortune / Albert W. Kayper-Mensah ; New Life at Kyerefaso / Efua Theodora Sutherland ; No Ten Without Nine / Lionel K. Idan -- Ewe. Ewe Poetry / Israel Kafu Hoh ; Akoli the Rich / L.K. Safo (Translated by Roland Agodzo) ; Poems of Eweland / Israel Kafu Hoh ; Down Below the Volta River / Adolph Kwesi Afordoanyi Agbadja -- Ga-Adangme. August Fish / E.K. Martey ; A Hawker's Day / Richard Bentil -- Dagomba. Kamyana Ka Ti Balim Tingbon (Come Back to the Land) ; Each for a Purpose / Albert Bako Derimanu -- Hausa. The Hausa Trader / Joseph H. Sackey ; Wakan Sule (A Song for a Shilling) / Malam Bello Osman ; The Tragedy of Nana Kwame Dziratuo II / H.K. Bidi Setsoafia |
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The Town. Tumble-Down Woods / Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty ; Tough Guy in Town / Martin Cameron Duodu ; In the Streets of Accra / Andrew Amankwa Opoku ; Snuff and the Ashes / Frank Ernest Kobina Parkes ; Radio Dance Hour / F.K. Chapman Wardy ; This is Experience Speaking / Peter Kwame Buahin ; Palm Leaves of Childhood / Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty ; Hot Day / Osborne Henry Kwesi Brew ; The Literary Society / Henry Ofori (a.k.a. Carl Mutt) ; It's Ritual Murder / Lionel K. Idan ; The Wrong Packing Case / Frank Kofi Nyaku ; Lines on Korle Bu / Kenneth Donald MacNeill Stewart ; Pay Day / G.R. Hagan ; The Walk of Life (Agbezoli) / Israel Kafu Hoh ; Peace / Lebrecht Wilhelm Fifi Hesse ; Heaven is a Fine Place / Adolph Kwesi Afordoanyi Agbadja ; Ata / Israel Kafu Hoh ; Complaint / E.K. Martey ; To My Mother / E.A. Nee-Adjabeng Ankrah ; Oh! My Brother / I.K. Ametsime ; The Homeless Boy / E. Archie Winful ; The Lone Horse / Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto ; The Perfect Understander / Albert W. Kayper-Mensah ; The Woods Decay / Osborne Henry Kwesi Brew ; On Parting / Joyce Naa Adoley Addo ; To the Night Insects ; The Blind Man from the North ; A Second Birthday ; God's Tired Face / Albert W. Kayper-Mensah ; The Executioner's Dream / Osborne Henry Kwesi Brew ; Had I Known / G.M.K. Mensah ; Re-incarnation / Set D. Cudjoe ; Ancestral Faces / Osborne Henry Kwesi Brew ; 'O Forest, Dear Forest' ; My Sea Adventures / Samuel E. Archibald-Aikins ; The Passing of the King / Albert W. Kayper-Mensah ; Patriotism / Joyce Naa Adoley Addo ; African Heaven / Frank Ernest Kobina Parkes ; The Ghosts / Albert W. Kayper-Mensah ; The Herdsman from Wa / Kwaku Poku ; Pa Grant Due / Peter Eric Adotey Addo ; The Mosquito and the Young Ghanaian / Kwesi Assah Nyako ; Unity in Diversity / Frank Kofi Nyaku ; The Journey to Independence / Isaac B. Dadson ; Ode to the Hon. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah / Prince Haasnem Nehrbot ; The Dawn of the New Era / J. Aggrey-Smith ; The Meaning of Independence / Robert Kweku Atta Gardiner ; National Anthem / Philip Comi Gbeho |
| Summary |
Annotated, scholarly edition of the original landmark anthology of poetry, plays, stories and essays Voices of Ghana first broadcast on radio in the years leading up to Ghana's independence |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 03, 2018) |
| Subject |
Ghanaian literature.
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Ghanaian literature (English)
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
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Ghanaian literature
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Ghanaian literature (English)
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| SUBJECT |
Ghana -- Literary collections
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| Subject |
Ghana
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Victoria Ellen, editor
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| ISBN |
9781787443457 |
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1787443450 |
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9781787443464 |
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1787443469 |
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