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• NovelEthiopia UnboundJ. E. Casely Hayford · 1911An African lawyer who came to study in London embraces the cause of African emancipation, in a narrative of 1911.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreThe BlinkardsKobina Sekyi · 1915A Cape Coast comedy that mocks Africans aping English manners, under colonial rule.Literature
• TaleAkan-Ashanti Folk-TalesRobert Sutherland Rattray · 1930A colonial administrator who speaks Twi transcribes, over the course of evening gatherings, the tales the Ashanti villagers tell one another.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaThe Boy KumasenuSean Graham · 1952Five years before independence, the cinema of the British colony tells of a village boy's arrival in the big city.Cinema
• PoetryRediscovery and Other PoemsKofi Awoonor · 1964In the early sixties, a young Ghanaian poet renders into English the funeral dirge of his Ewe people.Literature
• PoetrySongs from the WildernessFrank Kobina Parkes · 1965In Nkrumah's Ghana, a poet at the national radio sings the pride of being Black.Literature
• NovelThe Narrow PathFrancis Selormey · 1966Near Keta, a child grows up under the rod of a father who runs the mission schools.Literature
• TheatreForiwaEfua Sutherland · 1967Five years after independence, Ghanaian theatre shows a small town that must reconcile its old customs with new ways.Literature
• NovelThe Strange ManAmu Djoleto · 1967A defiant old man relives a harsh childhood, between Ghana before and after independence.Literature
• NovelThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet BornAyi Kwei Armah · 1968In the last months of Nkrumah's regime, an ordinary man refuses the corruption that has spread across the whole country.Literature
• TheatreAnowaAma Ata Aidoo · 1970From a Ghanaian legend, a woman playwright draws a play about wealth and the slave trade.Literature
• PoetryThe Oath of the Fontomfrom and Other PoemsAtukwei Okai · 1971The resistance poem of a pioneer of African performance poetry, between drum and voice.Literature
• CinemaLove Brewed in the African PotKwaw Ansah · 1980In Ghana in the eighties, a filmmaker single-handedly finances a feature film about love, class and the colonial legacy.Cinema
• CinemaTestamentJohn Akomfrah · 1988Twenty years after the fall of Nkrumah, an exile returns to Ghana and no longer finds a home there.Cinema

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