Gaines, James. 12 Days in Ghana: Reunions, Revelations & Reflections

'Mr. Gaines made each of his experiences tangible for me through his descriptive style. I actually felt like I was there with him meeting the people, tasting the food, dancing, and generally learning a totally different culture' - Amazon review. Buy

Labels: Armchair Travel, Ghana

Guest, Emma. Children of Aids: Africa's Orphan Crisis

Guest, a freelance writer on AIDS-related matters, concentrates on the neglected and perhaps most helpless and vulnerable victims of the AIDS epidemic...the millions of street orphans from all over Africa, especially in such sub-Saharan countries as South Africa, Zambia, and Uganda. Buy

Labels: Children, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Politics, Tanzania, Uganda

Bosompem, Kwasi. Let's Go Ghana: A Visitors Guide to Business Opportunities, Networking and Tourism in Ghana

This handbook has everything a tourist needs to know while visiting Ghana, providing information about health facilities, telecommunications access, useful phone numbers, appropriate clothing, mailing and shipping options, local diet, electrical power, public transportation, and the cost of living. Buy

Labels: Ghana, Travel Guide

Lonely Planet West Africa (Travel Survival Kit)

Rewarding and rugged, West Africa's 17 countries have much to offer the adventurous traveller. Laze on golden-sand beaches, trek up cool Mt Cameroon or see Saharan caravans set off from Timbuktu - this updated guide leads you through this entire alluring region. Buy

Labels: Ghana, Travel Guide

Meredith, Martin. The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair

The value of Meredith's towering history of modern Africa rests not so much in its incisive analysis, or its original insights; it is the sheer readability of the project, combined with a notable lack of pedantry, which makes it one of the decade's most important works on Africa. Spanning the entire continent, and covering the major upheavals more or less chronologically...from the promising era of independence to the most recent spate of infamies...Meredith brings us on a journey that is as illuminating as it is gruelling. Buy

Labels: Ghana, History, Kenya, Politics, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

Nolen, Stephanie. 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa

Nolen puts a very human face on HIV/AIDS in Africa, verbally and visually. A photograph accompanies each of the book's 28 personal histories (one subject stands for one million infected people in sub-Saharan Africa). The faces in the photos appear no different than faces of everyday Americans, but that appearance belies the horrific reality of lives shredded by devastating disease.

Labels: Biography, Ghana, Health, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

Ogunsanya, Dokpe L. "My Cooking" West-African Cookbook

This cookbook offers a fascinating glimpse into the West African kitchens. The book includes authentic easy recipe pages, colourful photos, etc. The book comes handy as an educational tool and makes for an interesting reading if used in the classroom or as a source for personal growth on the subject area if used outside the classroom. Buy

Labels: Culture, Ghana

Bourke, Dale Hanson. The Skeptics Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis: Tough Questions, Direct Answers

"After reading the first paragraph and faced with the statement, 'Three million people die each year from AIDS, a death toll that has been compared to twenty fully loaded 747s crashing every single day for a year', it seemed evident that there was more to this disease than I first thought. I remembered how many stories I saw on the news about airplanes crashing and the news coverage that followed. I can't remember the last news story I watched about AIDS" - Amazon Review. Buy

Labels: Development, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

Bosompem, Kwasi. Let's Go Ghana: A Visitors Guide to Business Opportunities, Networking and Tourism in Ghana

This handbook has everything a tourist needs to know while visiting Ghana, providing information about health facilities, telecommunications access, useful phone numbers, appropriate clothing, mailing and shipping options, local diet, electrical power, public transportation, and the cost of living. Buy

Labels: Ghana, Travel Guide

Birmingham, David. Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism

Kwame Nkrumah is the inspiration of African reconstructionism. Despite being the prime minister and president of Ghana, he died penniless. Buy

Labels: Biography, Ghana, History

The Bradt Travel Guide: Ghana (2nd Edition)

This guide has been expanded and fully updated for this second edition. It contains information on where to stay, eat, and how to get around; Ghanaian culture, from social traditions to kente cloth weaving; natural history and national parks and over 50 clear maps and town plans. Buy

Labels: Ghana, Travel Guide

The Rough Guide to West Africa

Some of the biggest pleasures of West Africa, however, are the small things. You'll encounter a degree of good humour, vitality and openness which can make the hard insularity of Western cultures seem absurd. Entering a shop or starting a conversation with a stranger without proper greetings and hand-shaking becomes inconceivable. Buy

Labels: Ghana, Travel Guide

Banks, Russell. The Darling

"Russell Banks takes us on a sumptuous and thrilling trip of perfect prose into Africa, through dreams, nightmares and through the life of Hannah Musgrave Sundiata. The characters in this book are so vividly depicted, so tangible that for the five days that I read this book, I became Hannah. I walked with her, felt her pain, saw things from her eyes and lived her amazing life. She will stay with me forever" - Amazon Review. Buy

Labels: Ghana, Literature, Women

Amanoo, Joseph G. The New Ghana: The Birth of a Nation

The New Ghana is the exciting account of the birth of Ghana, newest member of the British Commonwealth of Nations - the story of a bid for freedom crowned with success. Buy

Labels: Ghana, History, Politics

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