Accra Noir

Nana-Ama Danquah (Curatore)

Cassava Republic Press, 2021

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 honour 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.

• Curatore: Nana-Ama Danquah
• Editore: Cassava Republic Press
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 272 p.
• Dimensioni: 132 x 208 mm
• EAN: 9781913175214

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