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Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare is one of Africa's top children's writers and illustrators, and has won numerous awards including The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. 1982 and the 1999 Toyota/Children's Literature Foundation Best Picture Story Book Illustrator's award, the 1999 Unesco First Prize for Children and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance.

Meshack Asare, born 1945 in Ghana, studied Fine Arts at the College of Art in Kumasi and taught in Ghana for 12 years between 1967 and 1979. During that period, he took an extension course in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin.

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Nigerian writer Chukwuemeka Ike was awarded the 2008 Fonlon-Nichols Award at the African Literature Association meeting in Illinois during April. Previous winners of the award include Niyi Osundare, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Wole Soyinka.

Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana

Books published by Sub-Saharan Publishers

The African Predicament

Collected Essays

Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor

ISBN 9789988550820 | 428 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2006 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

At Home in the World?

International Migration and Development in Contemporary Ghana and West Africa

Edited by Takyiwaa Manuh

ISBN 9789988550790 | 356 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2005 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

The Baobabs of Tete and Other Stories

ISBN 9789988550295 | 120 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

The Blue Marble

Jackee Budesta Batanda

ISBN 9789988550899 | 44 pages | 203 x 127 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2005 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Cat in Search of a Friend

ISBN 9789988550189 | 30 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2000 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Chieftaincy in Ghana

Culture, Governance and Development

Edited by Albert K. Awedoba, Irene K. Odotei

ISBN 9789988550745 | 700 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2006 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Hardback

Chipo and the Bird on the Hill

A Tale of Ancient Zimbabwe

ISBN 9789988550448 | 35 pages | 100 x 100 mm | Colour Illustrations | 1984 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Coast of Slaves

Thorkild Hansen

ISBN 9789988550318 | 284 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2006 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

The Cross Drums

ISBN 9789988647063 | 105 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2008 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Hardback

Eighteenpence

ISBN 9789988550141 | 200 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1998 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

The Evolution of Parliament in Ghana

K.B. Ayensu, S.N. Darkwa

ISBN 9789988550769 | 172 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2006 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

ISBN 9789988550509 | 236 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2003 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Fati and the Honey Tree

Osu Library Fund

ISBN 9789988550783 | 28 pages | 100 x 100 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Hardback

Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited

ISBN 9789988647148 | 134 pages | 160 x 250 mm | Colour Photographs | 2007 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Hardback

A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana

From the 15th to the 19th Century

Akosua Adoma Perbi

ISBN 9789988550325 | 288 pages | 216 x 140 mm | B/W Illustrations and Maps | 2004 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

How Our Parliament Functions

An Introduction to the Law, Practice and Procedure of the Parliament in Ghana

K.B. Ayensu, S.N. Darkwa

ISBN 9789988550882 | 104 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2006 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Islands of Slaves

Thorkild Hansen

ISBN 9789988550622 | 462 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2006 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

It Happened in Ghana

A Historical Romance 1824-1971

ISBN 9789988647261 | 252 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2007 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

ISBN 9781904855811 | 308 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2006 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Kimberlite Flame

ISBN 9789988550349 | 112 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Kwajo and the Brassman's Secret

A Tale of old Ashanti Wisdom and Gold

ISBN 9789988550431 | 45 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy

ISBN 9789988647605 | 392 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2007 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

L'appel de Sosu (Sosu's Call)

ISBN 9789988550486 | 37 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade

Paul Erdmann Isert’s Journey to Guinea and the Carribean Islands in Columbis (1788)

Edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes

ISBN 9789988647018 | 358 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2007 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

The Magic Goat

ISBN 9789988550103 | 37 pages | 297 x 210 mm | Colour Illustrations | 1997 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Noma's Sand

A Tale from Lesotho

ISBN 9789988550561 | 38 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Not Without Flowers

ISBN 9789988647131 | 369 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2007 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Peoples Differ

An Approach to Inculturation in Evangelisation

Peter K. Sarpong

ISBN 9789988550387 | 116 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Population, Health and Development in Ghana

Attaining the Millennium Development Goals

Edited by Stephen O. Kwankye

ISBN 9789988647612 | 188 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2007 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Praise Song for The Land

ISBN 9789988550455 | 112 pages | 100 x 100 mm | CD-Rom | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Hardback

The Pride of Ewe Kente

Ahiagbale Bob Dennis

ISBN 9789988550271 | 72 pages | 100 x 100 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2004 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Sex and Gender in an Era of AIDS

Ghana at the Turn of the Millennium

Edited by Christine, Oppong

ISBN 9789988550554 | 360 pages | 229 x 152 mm | B/W Illustrations and Maps | 2006 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Ships of Slaves

Thorkild Hansen

ISBN 9789988550752 | 204 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

The Silent Rebel

S.W.D.K. (Kum) Gandah

ISBN 9789988550721 | 228 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2004 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Sosu's Call

ISBN 9789988550097 | 37 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2001 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Landmarks, Legacies, Expectations

Edited by James Kwesi Anquandah

ISBN 9789988647735 | 400 pages | 229 x 152 mm | Colour Illustrations and Colour Photographs | 2008 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Hardback

Unexpected Joy at Dawn

Alex Agyei-Agyiri

ISBN 9789988550912 | 332 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2004 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Where Have All the Rivers Gone?

A. Ofori-Mensah, E.O.A. Asibey

ISBN 9789988550127 | 27 pages | 100 x 100 mm | Colour Illustrations | 1997 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

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