Amma Darko

[12] Darko's first novel is influenced by her impressions of Germany, observing the interaction between Germans and Ghanaian immigrants.

A novel about a middle-class woman coming into contact with street children who are living in a part of Accra known as "Sodom and Gomorrhah".

One of the central characters, Aggie, works for the NGO MUTE, which aims to create an archive and an alternative library.

In this novel, two worlds converge: A Ghanaian man and a German woman fall in love in Germany, in the 1960s.

He gets to know how the man grows up in the British colony Gold Coast and the woman in post-war Germany.

The topic of twins is very important as well as the natural religion of the Akan people in Ghana with their fetish and clan priests, libations and drumming.

This young readers' book brings the charm of the traditional Kweku Ananse stories into the context of our modern world.

In this story, which is the first of a series, the Kweku Ananse tales are recounted through the experiences of an orphan girl named Obiba and by virtue of a mysterious set of beads.

It comes into the possession of the orphan Obiba, who is living a difficult life with her unkind aunt in Ghana's capital Accra.

Told and retold by the captives from the Ashanti tribe during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Kweku Ananse stories spread to other parts of the world.