SUMMARY OF THE STORY BOOK ONE ATTEMPTED RAPE As the novel opens, fourteen year old Fofo is seen sleeping on an old cardboard at Agbogbloshie market. She has a job at the vegetable market in Agbogbloshie where she washes carrots. The market is close to a slum known as Sodom and Gomorrah. When she is… Continue reading FACELESS – SUMMARY OF THE STORY
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Crossing the Bar – Stanza Summary
STANZA SUMMARY Stanza one ‘Sunset and evening star’ informs the reader that the poetic personae has come of age and is close to death. ‘Sunset’ and ‘evening’ depicts the end of the day, but is poetically deployed in the poem to mean the end of one’s life. This death call he accepts as his, and… Continue reading Crossing the Bar – Stanza Summary
FACELESS – theme, techniques
FACELESS – THEMES, TECHNIQUES Theme of superstition In the prose, the characters believed that certain spiritual phenomena affects the lives of people. Maa Tsuru is believed to have been cursed by her mother to suffer in life. She herself believed this including her husband and mother-in-law. More so, Onko, the character who raped Baby-T, is… Continue reading FACELESS – theme, techniques
FACELESS – summary of the story
FACELESS - summary of the story BOOK ONE ATTEMPTED RAPE As the novel opens, fourteen year old Fofo is seen sleeping on an old cardboard at Agbogbloshie market. She has a job at the vegetable market in Agbogbloshie where she washes carrots. The market is close to a slum known as Sodom and Gomorrah.… Continue reading FACELESS – summary of the story
Faceless – Settings, Plot, Cast
Biography of the author Amma Darko was born in Koforidua, Ghana, on June 26, 1956, and she grew up in Accra. She studied in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, and gained a diploma in 1980. She worked with a Technology Consultancy Centre in Kumasi. She was born Ophelia Darko. "Amma" is a… Continue reading Faceless – Settings, Plot, Cast
Blood of a Stranger – SUMMARY OF THE STORY
THE SUMMARY OF THE STORY ACT 1, SCENE ONE Maligu, the king’s adviser, stands in front of the cave waiting for Soko, the chief priest, to come out. The chief priest of the land is supposed to be sleeping in the cave every night to atone for the sins of the people, but, Soko stays… Continue reading Blood of a Stranger – SUMMARY OF THE STORY
Blood of a Stranger — Plot
About the Playwright Raymond Caleb Ayodele, alias “Dele”, born in Freetown on March 27, 1948 Freetown. Charley was a Sierra Leonean writer and playwright in English and Krio language. He studied in Freetown and London and worked for the Ministry of Education. He was also a playwright and director. Co-founder of the Tabule Theatre. Dele… Continue reading Blood of a Stranger — Plot
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his… Continue reading Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Anvil and The Hammer by Kofi Awonoor
The Anvil and The Hammer Caught between the anvil and the hammer In the forging house of a new life Transforming the pangs that delivered me Into the joy of new songs The trapping of the past, tender and tenuous Woven with fibre of sisal and Washed in the blood of the goat in… Continue reading The Anvil and The Hammer by Kofi Awonoor
Birches BY ROBERT FROST
Birches When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay As ice-storms do. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. They click… Continue reading Birches BY ROBERT FROST
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