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Accra Noir
by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

    Publication Date: Dec 01, 2020
    List Price: $16.95
    Format: Paperback, 256 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9781617758898
    Imprint: Akashic Books
    Publisher: Akashic Books
    Parent Company: Akashic Books

    Paperback Description:

    Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.

    Brand-new stories by: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Kwame Dawes, Adjoa Twum, Kofi Blankson Ocansey, Billie McTernan, Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo, Patrick Smith, Anne Sackey, Gbontwi Anyetei, Nana-Ama Danquah, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Eibhl n N Chl irigh, and Anna Bossman.

    From the introduction by Nana-Ama Danquah:

    Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales—ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins—is woven into the fabric of the city’s everyday life…

    Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation’s soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence, the colonial imposition, declarations of freedom, followed by coups d’ tat, decades of dictatorship, and then, finally, a steady march forward into a promising future…

    Much like Accra, these stories are not always what they seem. The contributors who penned them know too well how to spin a story into a web…It is an honor and a pleasure to share them and all they reveal about Accra, a city of allegories, one of the most dynamic and diverse places in the world.