Books in Longman African Classics series

In this novel, the author explores the thoughts and experiences of a Ghanaian girl on her travels through Europe. It offers a running commentary on Sissie's feelings of alienation, her reflections on European culture and "civilization" and her return to the warmth of home in Africa. Ama Ato Aidoo has also published her collected plays "The Dilemma of a Ghost/Anowa" and short stories "No Sweetness Here". "Longman African Classics" are designed for the general reader, but are also suitable for schools and universities.

A collection of 11 stories, these range from the politics of wigs to the joys of motherhood. In them, the author writes about life in post-colonial Africa, inviting the reader to confront life as it is and rise to the challenge of injustice and ignorance. Ama Ata Aidoo has written various plays "The Dilemma of a Ghost/Anowa" and a novel "Our Sister Killjoy". The books in this series are for the general reader, but are also suitable for schools and universities.

(In 1975, two Nigerian journalists are fired from a national newspaper. The older man retires to a peaceful, rural life. The younger remains in Lagos as a freelance writer. Their professional interest, however, is aroused by threats to the environment of their Delta homeland, and the two men find themselves reunited in a project which brings them into tragic contact with the country s security organisation and political dissidents alike. Okpewho s third novel Tides raises several disturbing questions in its moral and political analysis of Nigerian society)Okpewho won the African Arts Prize for his second novel, The Last Duty .