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by Benjamin Kwakye
Synopsis:
This is a tightly-plotted courtroom drama with themes from contemporary Africa. When a Ghanaian prostitute is killed and a wealthy businessman accused of the crime, the ensuing court case becomes a mirror for the turbulent attitudes of a young country. Accra, Ghana. A prostitute is found dead, apparently murdered. The last person to see her alive? Manu, a respectable and wealthy businessman whose name is suddenly linked with hints of depravity and disgrace. Arrested and thrust into the judicial system, Manu's trial becomes a microcosm of the conflicting social strata and traditions boiling in a country still reeling from its new-found freedom and struggling to come to terms with the legacies of the recently discarded colonial experience. Kwakye explores the abrasive oppositions between the old order and the new; the controversial emerging social order against the entrenched and difficult mores of colonised Ghana. Notions of manhood, of the marital relationship and human conduct unravel in the threshing machine of Manu's court case: Kwakye rethreads them into a pulsating image of humanity and power in the dangerous freedom of the new Africa
Paperback: 320 pages
Synopsis:
This is a tightly-plotted courtroom drama with themes from contemporary Africa. When a Ghanaian prostitute is killed and a wealthy businessman accused of the crime, the ensuing court case becomes a mirror for the turbulent attitudes of a young country. Accra, Ghana. A prostitute is found dead, apparently murdered. The last person to see her alive? Manu, a respectable and wealthy businessman whose name is suddenly linked with hints of depravity and disgrace. Arrested and thrust into the judicial system, Manu's trial becomes a microcosm of the conflicting social strata and traditions boiling in a country still reeling from its new-found freedom and struggling to come to terms with the legacies of the recently discarded colonial experience. Kwakye explores the abrasive oppositions between the old order and the new; the controversial emerging social order against the entrenched and difficult mores of colonised Ghana. Notions of manhood, of the marital relationship and human conduct unravel in the threshing machine of Manu's court case: Kwakye rethreads them into a pulsating image of humanity and power in the dangerous freedom of the new Africa
Paperback: 320 pages
