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Books set in Ghana:
Wife of the Gods: A Novel by Kwei Quartey
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo
Black Power: The Color Curtain; Black Power; White Man, Listen! 
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
Coming Down from WA by Audrey Thomas
The Narrow Path by Francis Selormey
Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo
Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa by Tanya Shaffer
The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories by Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Search Sweet Country by B. Kojo Laing
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo
ELE, the Conceited Lizard: Ewe Stories from Ghana by Nico Kofi Adiku
Ghana: Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah by Kwame Nkrumah
Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Manu Herbstein
Cloth Girl by Marilyn Heward Mills
Children of the Street by Kwei Quartey
Women of the Aeroplanes by B. Kojo Laing
Kmt: In The House Of Life by Ayi Kwei Armah
Grief Child by Lawrence Darmani
Tail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Harmattan rain by Ayesha Harruna Attah
Definition Of A Miracle by Farida N. Bedwei
The Seasons of Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
Eighteenpence by R.E. Obeng
Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars by B. Kojo Laing
Comes the Voyager at Last: A Tale of Return to Africa by Kofi Awoonor
The Stool by Kwakuvi Azasu
Money Galore by Amu Djoleto
Journey by G.A. Agambila
The African Predicament. Collected Essays by Kofi Awoonor
This Side Jordan: A Novel by Margaret Laurence
The Association of Foreign Spouses by Marilyn Heward Mills
Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond by Ekow Eshun
This Earth, My Brother by Kofi Awoonor
Not Without Flowers by Amma Darko
Messages: Poems from Ghana by Kofi Awoonor
Faceless by Amma Darko
True Murder by Yaba Badoe
The Sun By Night, a novel by Benjamin Kwakye
Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
The Door of No Return by Sarah Mussi
The African Agenda by Camynta Baezie
Gatekeepers - The Quest for Clues to an Age-Old Riddle by Kobina Amissah Fynn
The Invitation by Kwakuvi Azasu
The Other Crucifix by Benjamin Kwakye
Powder Necklace by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era 
The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle by William St Clair
Cape Coast Castle. A Collection of Poems by Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang
Escape from Cape Coast Castle and Home Again by Ronald Montgomery
The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle by William St.Clair
Gatekeepers - The Quest for Clues to an Age-Old Riddle by Kobina Amissah Fynn
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Murder in Kumasi by Cofie Quaye
Big Bishop Roko and the Alter Gangsters by B. Kojo Laing
Tales from Different Tails by Nana Awere Damoah
That Cunning Mask by Gabby Ozems
The Civilized World: A Novel in Stories by Susi Wyss
Greetings From Ghana: An Englishmen's Adventures from the City of Accra 
Culture and Customs of Ghana by Steven J. Salm
Angel Boy by Bernard Ashley
My Son A Journey by Francis J.D. Hyland
Godhorse by Kojo Laing
Banda Mission by Ruben Schwieger
Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler
King Peggy by Peggielene Bartels
Search Sweet Country by Kojo Laing
Between Sisters by Adwoa Badoe
Travels in Ghana by Marie McCarthy
The Twelfth Heart by Elizabeth-Irene Baitie
Please Be Upstanding: Letters from Ghana by Heather Johnston
Master Prah by Kofi Adabie
Our Days Dwindle: Memories of My Childhood Days in Asante by T. E. Kyei
Black Star: A View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah by Basil Davidson
Tongnaab: The History of a West African God by Jean Marie Allman
I Will Not Eat Stone: A Women's History of Colonial Asante by Jean Allman
Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana by Birgit Meyer
Cocoa and Chaos in Ghana by Gwendolyn Mikell
Bu Me Be: Proverbs of the Akans by Peggy Appiah
Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War for Africa's Gold Coast
An Anthology of Contemporary Ghanaian Poems by Woeli A. Dektsey
Routes of Remembrance by Bayo Holsey
More books set in Ghana:
The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi: A Novel by Arthur Japin
Beyond the Horizon by Amma Darko
The Clothes of Nakedness by Benjamin Kwakye
Onions Are My Husband by Gracia Clark
The Housemaid by Amma Darko
Watch and Pray: A Portrait of Fante Village Life in Transition by Nancy Lundgren
The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah
The Ghanaian Revolution by Joseph G. Amamoo
Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah
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The Place We Call Home by Kofi Anyidoho
Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo
Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70 edited by Anne V. Adams
Sorcery, soft porn and scams - the stuff of stories for Ghana's street filmmakers, who feature in my book AmalgaNations
More books set in Ghana:
360 Degrees... Life is a Full Circle by Regina Neequaye
Accra: Roman by Kwei Quartey
Africa Through Ghanaian Lenses by Samuel Ebow Quainoo
African Love Stories: An Anthology by Ama Ata Aidoo
Anansi And The Magic Drum
Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo
Around the Baobab Tree by E. Charlese Spencer
Bamboo: Essays and Criticism by William Boyd
Beneath The Jazz And Brass by Joe De Graft
The Blinkards And The Anglo Fanti by Kobina Sekyi
Bright Lights, No City: An African Adventure 
Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa by Órla Ryan
The Cross Drums by Meshack Asare
Dark Days in Ghana by Kwame Nkrumah
Death at the Voyager Hotel by Kwei Quartey
The Drummer in Our Time by A.W. Kayper-Mensah
Eddie Signwriter: A Novel by Adam Schwartzman
Elmina's Kitchen by Kwame Kwei-Armah
The Eloquence of Scribes by Ayi Kwei Armah
Eyes of a Boy, Lips of a Man by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Eyes of the Slain Woman by Kwakye Benjamin
Face To Face. Poems And Short Stories About A Virus by Accra Goethe Institut
Female Voices From An Ewe Dance Drumming Community In Ghana
Folk Tales from Ghana by Raja Sharma
Fragments by Ayi Kwei Armah
Ghana Folk Tales: Ananse Stories from Africa by Peter Eric Adotey Addo
The Girl Who Can by Ama Ata Aidoo
Gold of Our Fathers by Kwei Quartey
Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry by Kofi Awoonor
A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana by Akosua, Adoma Perbi
Hope At Sunset. A Novel by Kudzo Agamasu
The House by the Sea by Kofi Awoonor
How the Spider Became Bald: Folktales and Legends from West Africa 
A Husband for Esi Ellua by Asare Konadu
Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl by John M. Chernoff
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana by Steven Feld
Marita, Or, The Folly Of Love: A Novel by A. Native
The Marriage of Anansewa; Edufa: Two Plays by Efua Sutherland
Men Ghosts by Kofi Aidoo
Muntu by Joe De Graft
Murder at Cape Three Points by Kwei Quartey
My Name is Butterfly by Bernice L. McFadden
New Dawn by Naa Shalman
Night of My Blood by Kofi Awoonor
Ordained By The Oracle by Asare Konadu
Osiris Rising: a novel of Africa past, present and future by Ayi Kwei Armah
People of the Zongo by Enid Schildkrout
The Pineapple Child,: And Other Tales from Ashanti by Peggy Appiah
Plays 1: Elmina's Kitchen / Fix Up / Statement of Regret / Let There Be Love 
The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013 by Kofi Awoonor
Rebel by Bediako Asare
The Return by Yaw M. Boateng
Ride Me, Memory by Kofi Awoonor
Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker
Statement of Regret by Kwame Kwei-Armah
The Strange Man by Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto
The Stubborn by Bediako Asare
The Sun by Night by Benjamin Kwakye
Sweet Justice by Kwakuvi Azasu
Tales Of An Ashanti Father by Peggy Appiah
Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems by Abena P.A. Busia
Unexpected Joy at Dawn
Until the Morning After: Collected Poems, 1963 1985 by Kofi Awoonor
Voodoo, Slaves and White Man's Graves: West Africa and the End of Days 
West African Narratives of Slavery by Alex Agyei-agyiri
Why are we so Blest? by Ayi Kwei Armah
A Woman in Her Prime by Asare Konadu
Woman of the Aeroplanes by Kojo Laing
More books set in Ghana:
Edufa by Efua Sutherland
Murder In Kumasi by Isaac Nunoofio
Neo Colonialism: The Last Stage Of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah
More books set in Ghana: 
The Days by Ama Ata Aidoo
Ele, the Conceited Lizard: Ewe Stories from Ghana by Nico Kofi Adiku
Messages: Poems from Ghana by Kofi Awoonor
So Much for Democracy by Kari Jones
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
In the Chest of a Woman by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe
Prison Graduates by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe
More books set in Ghana:
Across the Wide Zambezi: A Doctor's Life in Africa by Warren Durrant
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
Aluta by Adwoa Badoe
Amie: An African Adventure by Lucinda E. Clarke
Ballast: A Remix: Poetry by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti's Eye by Manu Herbstein
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo.
Spellbound: Inside West Africa's Witch Camps by Karen Palmer.
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by V.S. Naipaul.
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