Accra noir /
Accra noir /
edited by Nana-Ama Danquah.
- 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
- Akashic noir series .
- Akashic noir series. .
Introduction -- One day for master. Chop money / Shape-shifters / Moon over Aburi / Fantasia in fans and flat screens / Heaven gate, no bride. The Labadi Sunshine Bar / The driver / The situation / All die be die. Intentional consequences / Tabilo Wucfc / When a man loves a woman / Sea never dies. Kweku's house / The boy who wasn't there / Instant justice / Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond -- Adjoa Twum -- Kwame Dawes -- Kofi Blackson Ocansey -- Billie McTernan -- Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo -- Patrick Smith -- Anne Sackey -- Gbontwi Anyetei -- Nana-Ama Danquah -- Ayesha Harruna Attah -- Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh -- Anna Bossman. Part I: Part II: Part III: Part IV:
"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'état, 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."--From the introduction.
9781617758898 1617758892
2020935791
Crime scenes--Ghana--Accra--Fiction.
Noir fiction, English.
Accra (Ghana)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Accra (Ghana)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Noir fiction.
Introduction -- One day for master. Chop money / Shape-shifters / Moon over Aburi / Fantasia in fans and flat screens / Heaven gate, no bride. The Labadi Sunshine Bar / The driver / The situation / All die be die. Intentional consequences / Tabilo Wucfc / When a man loves a woman / Sea never dies. Kweku's house / The boy who wasn't there / Instant justice / Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond -- Adjoa Twum -- Kwame Dawes -- Kofi Blackson Ocansey -- Billie McTernan -- Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo -- Patrick Smith -- Anne Sackey -- Gbontwi Anyetei -- Nana-Ama Danquah -- Ayesha Harruna Attah -- Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh -- Anna Bossman. Part I: Part II: Part III: Part IV:
"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'état, 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."--From the introduction.
9781617758898 1617758892
2020935791
Crime scenes--Ghana--Accra--Fiction.
Noir fiction, English.
Accra (Ghana)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Accra (Ghana)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Noir fiction.