Books published by publisher Techmate Publishers Ltd. and Worldreader

Patience Acolatse is not amused when she learns that her ex-cousin, Rowena Quarshie, whom she hasn't spoken to in six years is going to move in with her family, share her room and attend her school. However, Patience has a big heart and she is prepared to befriend Rowena once again and pick up their frienship from where they left off. What she isn't prepared for is for her entire life to be turned upside down and inside out when Rowena gangs up with a group of girls and makes her life miserable. What does Patience do when she runs out of patience?

A 2014 Burt Award for Young Adult African Literature (BAYAAL) winning title, Plain Yellow, by Ruby Yayra Goka is one of the first YA novels in Ghana to talk about rape and sexual violence. Naa Amerley Amarteyfio, is a-not-so-average teenager. Well, she does love books and fashion and her boyfriend, Nikoi, but that is where the similarity ends. After the birth of yet another daughter, Amerley’s father disappears again even though the baby was stillborn. Her mother keeps to her bed and refuses to do anything. Amerley’s parents’ responsibilities fall on her shoulders. She takes on the role of being both a mother and a father to her three younger sisters, but she doesn’t mind because family means everything to Amerley.Salvation comes to the Amarteyfio family in the form of a rich aunt who offers payment for Amerley’s services as a maid. Amerley is forced to relocate to a plush neighbourhood in East Legon, where she puts her own dreams aside in order to make her family's life better. Life in East Legon is far different than anything she’s ever known, but she adapts and learns to fit in until one night when everything changes. Amerley is forced to decide how far she will continue sacrificing herself to make life better for her family.Told in alternating chapters between the present and the past, which showcase the stark differences between the two worlds Amerley is straddling, this book reminds readers that silence is not always golden, sometimes it’s just plain yellow. This book is a good resource for discussing sexual violence and what to do in its aftermath. Six of Ruby Yayra Goka’s books have won awards in the Burt Award for African Literature competitions. She has also won an award in the inaugural Burt Award for African Literature (BAAL): All Star Edition in 2017. Goka won an award in the Authorship and Creative Writing Category in the 40 under 40 awards in Ghana. Her books are used as supplementary reading materials in schools across Ghana.

“You mean you’ve never dreamt that you went to America?”. “No,” I answered. He looked shocked. He said if I hadn’t dreamt the American Dream, there was something terribly wrong with me…The American Dream is the thirteenth story in a series of supplementary class readers to be used with Keynote English series, a rewarding primary-English course designed for the new syllabus. The class readers will be useful with any course book and can also be read for pleasure outside the classroom setting.

Winner of the 2017 Anasoma Writing Contest, Christine Odeph has written a powerful book of hope in the face of grief, abuse, depression, and death. After Ayira's abusive boyfriend Patrick dies, she succumbs to grief and it is only her servant, Benta, who nurses her back from the edge of depression. Fate has brought these two strong and compassionate women together. Can the servant help the mistress come to terms with her loss, guilt, and relief at the death of an abusive but much loved boyfriend?

While still a schoolgirl, Truphena takes her baby brother to hospital. He is dangerously ill but through patient and compassionate nursing care, the boy recovers. Truphena watches it all and is so deeply impressed by the kindness and devotion of the nurses and doctors that she makes up her mind to become a nurse on completing her studies. This book describes Truphena’s adventures in her first year as a student nurse. There is a vivid and intimate picture of hospital life as the author traces Truphena and her fellow student nurses in their struggle to pass their examination in the midst of romantic and other distractions.