Download or read book Odyssey of Akyemkwaa written by Nana Adjaloo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Memoir, Odyssey of Akyemkwaa, is a coming-of-age story written with finesse and encompasses narrations which evoke scenes in a documentary movie. The main character, Siam Erzuah, is a Sales Representative working for the Sheehy Auto Group in Alexandria, Virginia. Encouraged by his appreciative customers as well as others, he reveals his personal life stories with a surprising flair of an accomplished story teller. From the beginning, the book takes the reader to the Village of Agona Mankrong in Ghana where Erzuah was born. In the early stages of his life, he becomes conscious of his parents constant financial woes. As a result, he decides not to follow their subsistence farming occupation (his father also had an additional job as a Field Assistant for the Ministry of Agriculture helping Cocoa farmers). In succinct language, the book portrays Erzuah as having a profound distaste for subsistence farming out of various reasons including his morbid fear of snakes. Hence, he decides to take the education route to have a better job in the future. Despite the desire to be educated, the book tells of how Erzuah almost had his secondary school admission cancelled because of prolonged sickness and subsequent death of his elder brothera situation which causes his parents to be financially incapacitated. Out of desperation, his parents want to postpone his education, but Erzuah will hear none of it! His insistence on going to school forces his father to ask for help from his friend, a move that causes Erzuah to end up in a virtual domestic slavery. Throughout his secondary and college education, the book traces Erzuahs struggles and progress with candor and humor. At one point, he is cornered and beaten up by a student gang of five for no reason. On another occasion, he steals a roasted plantain when he could not contain his hunger anymore, but gets caught and punished. His first job at Ghanas Bureau of National Investigations, and subsequent travel to the United States caps a life full of drama, successes, failures, and also determination. As a coming-of-age story, Odyssey of Akyemkwaa represents the archetypal rite-de-passage experienced by the average male growing up in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is a life story often times seen only on TVs in America and other Western Countries. This is a must read book for all adults, college students, and those who find themselves under unbearable stress in life.
Download or read book It s the Money Amen written by Siam Erzuah and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two money-conscious teenage thugs, Joseph Basabasa and Nipa Crazima, feel they could not tolerate receiving an undeserved education at a delinquent institution, Delinqhose Reformatory, they plan and implement an escape strategy to launch their careers as preachers of faith and miracle workers. Having succeeded in establishing themselves as miracle workers, the two friends, now called Pastor Joe Wrap and Mallam Nipa Manabad, achieve their aim by becoming rich while commanding thousands of followers. In their routine undertakings, they indulge in blatant deception to achieve their goals, while Joe Wrap particularly ups the ante by engaging in reckless philandering. With Wrap involved in cheating, his wife, Yenti-Gyae Wrap, decides to turn the tables on him by dating a young drug dealer. The pastor, however, could not stand the insult of his wife cheating on him and thus kills his wife's boyfriend. To settle the score, Mrs. Wrap avenges her late boyfriend by murdering her husband's girlfriend, Whinny Wilgetmyshare, when she catches the two having an affair. The Wraps are able to escape justice by using bribery while exploiting the incompetency of the local police force. At a certain point in time, an ascetic and itinerant Christian preacher, Man-of-Sorrow, with the help of an old pious and learned Muslim ally, El-Hajj Yudugud (who also happens to know the two charlatans), confronts the pastor and his Muslim friend on their unsavory deeds. The two faith peddlers, however, resent the intrusion and plan to eliminate the new adversaries if the need arises. Also caught in the saga of the faith peddlers are two philanthropic expatriates, Darling Adomaityte and Kidest Desta, who are working assiduously to assist members of Pastor Wrap's church and others while, at the same time, endeavoring to expose the pastor and his Muslim accomplice. At the end of this thrilling saga, victims of Pastor Wrap and Nipa Manabad avenge their ill treatment by planning and implementing the elimination of both religious preachers.
Download or read book A Search for America written by Frederick Philip Grove and published by Graphic Publishers, 1927 (1928 printing). This book was released on 1927 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical fiction affording numerous references to Grove's life as Felix Paul Greve (1879-1909), and the three years he spent in America before he came to Manitoba in December, 1912. -- On title page: 'America is a continent, not a country.' -- Preface ["Author's Note", p. vi] is dated Dec. 1926, Rapid City, and signed with the printed initials F.P.G. Grove claims that this book has been rewritten 8 times over the last 32 years, and excuses "anachronisms" as "an unavoidable consequence of such a method of composition." He thanks A.L.P. [Phelps] and W.K. [Kirkconnell] of Wesley College, Winnipeg, for their encouragement.
Download or read book Zamzam written by Swan Hjalmar Swanson and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
