Instant justice / Part IV: One day for master. Chop money / Anna Bossman. Shape-shifters / Adjoa Twum -- Moon over Aburi / Kwame Dawes -- Fantasia in fans and flat screens / Kofi Blankson Ocansey -- Part II: Heaven gate, no bribe. The Labadi Sunshine Bar / Billie McTernan -- The driver / Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo -- The situation / Patrick Smith -- Part III: All die be die. Intentional consequences / Anne Sackey -- Tabilo Wucfc / Gbontwi Anyetei -- When a man loves a woman / Nana-Ama Danquah -- Part IV: Sea never dry. Kweku's house / Ayesha Harruna Attah -- The boy who wasn't there / Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh -- Instant justice / Anna Bossman.
Summary:
"Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales--ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins--is woven into the fabric of the city's everyday life... Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation's soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence, the colonial imposition, declarations of freedom, followed by coups d'état, decades of dictatorship, and then, finally, a steady march forward into a promising future... Much like Accra, these stories are not always what they seem. The contributors who penned them know too well how to spin a story into a web...It is an honor and a pleasure to share them and all they reveal about Accra, a city of allegories, one of the most dynamic and diverse places in the world."--From the introduction.
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