Tickling the Ghanaian: Encounters with contemporary Ghanaian culture

by Kofi Akpabli

A book on contemporary Ghanaian culture and heritage. In this book Kofi Akpabli seeks to unravel what at all tickles the Ghanaian. Is it Sunday afternoon's after church Omo Tuo and beer, or when Ghana is 'beating' its arch-rivals in sports, Nigeria? Articles in this book include the two that won him the CNN/Multichoice Journalist Award for Arts and Culture back to back in 2010 and 2011, becoming the first journalist, in the award's history, to have won one category back to The Serious Business of Soup in Ghana and What is right with Akpeteshie. Following his usual humorous style of writing, Tickling the Ghanaian promises to be funny and educating. Kofi takes a different view of what we have perceived as always to be archaic. Kofi has eyes of details and tells his story the best way it could possibly be told.

Genres: Nonfiction

142 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Nina Chachu]

A series of amusing essays on contemporary Ghana. It does help if one is either Ghanaian or has lived in Ghana, as there are references to customs and sayings which might not be easy to understand without some kind of familiarity with Ghana. Enjoyable