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december 2008 accra books and things accra books and things thoughts about books information libraries and related matters with an accra focus month december 2008 post navigation new bookshop at accra mall posted by accrabooksandthings 0 i went into the new bookshop in the accra mall and came out with mixed feelings it looks very sleek and modern from the outside but i felt it was rather cramped once i was in and taking a look around ok i was constrained by the fact that i went in with two of the family who were not too pleased to be hanging around the mum while she was looking at what she wanted just as i felt a little irritated hanging about waiting for them when they were browsing in a clothes shop earlier so i obviously need to go back and probably do this on my own which i will do sometime next week initials reactions though not sure who the market is it is associated with the movie theatres but i am not clear as to the exact relationship there are books for adults and children dvds games and music cds plus some attractive cards all new nicely labeled priced though i feel on the high side and with security tags on them although the different media are more or less separated i found the arrangement of the books a bit difficult to follow with a lack of signage the fiction also seemed to be a bit of a hodge podge and unfortunately for me i think i had read many of them a lot of devotional and religious books too and right at the front of the shop which rather surprised me not much african writing either though i did see the most recent collection of short stories for the caine prize which was unexpected i didn t buy anything which is pretty unusual for me in a bookshop but i will go back and take a really good look posted in accra book shops dec 27 barcamp ghana a few reactions posted by accrabooksandthings 2 technically i was on holiday on monday the 22nd december but i decided to attend part of the first barcamp which was being held at the kofi annan ict centre i can t remember where i first saw it mentioned advertised but it did come on the ginks list among others i liked the themes and at least one academic colleague had said she would be attending so why not it didn t start at exactly 9am but then it was only 15 20 minutes or so late which here in ghana is not particularly unusual i won t go into details as others have done so already and no doubt the organisers will do more a few things struck me the lack of formality the number of laptops and the youth of the vast majority of the participants it wasn t that i felt out of place but i did realise that i was probably one of the oldest people there it didn t really bother me but i did think about it though more after the event than while actually there there were very few members of what i would call the establishment present though dr amos anyimadu and prof george ayittey are definitely exceptions in a way perhaps this lack of the older more established establishment and or politicians did enable the lack of formality to really take hold though i did wonder a bit about the initial arrangement of the chairs which was in a lecture theatre style which to my mind doesn t encourage participation and interaction i do like circles and or u shapes for that maybe it is a suggestion for future events there were the usual slight glitches with the microphones is there ever an event without such issues here sigh but there was wifi and the organisers were taking notes and displaying them for everyone on a large screen which i hadn t seen before but really liked i did forget to bring along a lot of my business cards which really annoyed me cos by now i should know better i suppose it is because i was not using my work handbag what an idiot i am i couldn t stay for the whole day but am glad to have gone i did meet a few older acquaintances and made some new ones plus saw some people whom i ve only read online more grease to the elbows of the organisers they really did put in a lot of effort and in my view it paid off i for one look forward to future events of this nature posted in uncategorized tagged barcampghana dec 24 holidays have started posted by accrabooksandthings 0 i recently finished reading emma s war though it did take me longer than usual to finish but that is not too surprising as i tend to read non fiction more slowly than fiction and if truth be told it is easier to skim fiction than non fiction oh dear i was glad to have gone to the recent accra book club meeting as it did bring up some issues that i was more conscious of than perhaps i would have been interestingly enough i came across a name of someone i knew mentioned in the book as one of those who commented on the educational work that emma had been doing so i did the natural thing a search on google and came up with a couple of leads including a facebook entry not just for the younger generations is facebook along with many other organisations here in ghana work is officially closed for a couple of weeks for christmas and new year though i am sure that faculty will be occupied mostly in marking for some of us that means more time to catch up on my reading and a little tv too i still have to finish chris anderson s the long tail which i started a month or so again it s not that it is not not worth reading i just got distracted i have also started the well reviewed first novel by catherine o flynn what was lost but haven t got very far saw that there is a new shop in the accra shopping mall with books wow i suspect there are a lot of dvds and cds as well but still that means even more temptation on saturday morning shopping posted in uncategorized tagged accra book shops dec 20 discussion of emma s war posted by accrabooksandthings 0 i finally went to an accra book club meeting on tuesday my first in more than a year i think i stayed at work and then got to the zanzibar restaurant early and actually continued reading kudos to the owner manager who turned a light for which i was very grateful as i mentioned in an earlier post the book under discussion was emma s war by deborah scroggins i had only read a quarter of it but it was interesting hearing the three others present discussing some of the themes ideas which appealed to them or struck them as worth discussing i am still reading it so it wasn t really a spoiler and anyway i know that she died but it was fascinating hearing reactions to descriptions of the aid development relief communities of which emma was a part the detail on the sudan is considerable and in a way the book s title is a little misleading as at least half of it is devoted to explanations of the changing situations in that turbulent country i am learning something and having had a discussion one does notice some aspects more posted in uncategorized tagged accra book club dec 07 reading for accra book club posted by accrabooksandthings 2 i really really really wanted to be a very constant member of the accra book club but somehow r s illness and my feelings of obligation rather stopped that from happening as i would have theoretically wished but i did and do usually buy the books and read them more or less at the right time and wish for a few evenings that i could have joined other members to eat and hear their views on what we had just read fully partly or not even at all given that r is pretty hostile to me these days and that i don t actually do anything to help or support him when i come home i figuredthat i might as well go to the next gathering which would be taking place sometime during the first week of december the book under discussion was originally planned for october emma s war by deborah scroggins i d started it so didn t expect to say much about it though it is well written and does give a lot of background on the sudan which for various reasons is quite a popular location this year for readings for this book club the abc also read dave eggers what is the what earlier this year i found the bits in the us more moving somehow than the scenes in the sudan maybe the latter were simply too horrible i remember hearing about emma at some point must have been through the bbc or through uk newspapers and magazines available british council in kumasi i find reading non fiction does take more effort maybe because i actually have to read more rather than merely skim to enjoy the flow and the plot so i do have to apply myself over the next few days the november book for the abc was originally going to be alaa al aswany s the yacoubian building which i was to lead on but that has been postponed till the new year i think i did finish it and enjoyed it i suspect that the language would have had more impact in its original arabic but it was still readable at times amusing and at times moving i can understand to an extent that an outsider can just how controversial this novel was and is in egypt to describe corruption homosexual relationships and sexual harassment of women in such straightforward terms must have really had an impact on egyptian society which is quite heavily controlled by the state though in comparison to other middle eastern states it might be considered to be quite liberal in terms of societal mores that the author is not only egyptian but living and working in egypt makes it even more interesting i wonder how the other readers will have reacted to it posted in uncategorized tagged accra book club dec 05 post navigation accra book club africa african fiction african non fiction african writing africa reading challenge alba sumprim ama ata aidoo ashesi ashesi university college barcamp ghana 2010 benjamin kwakye blog bloggingghana book buying book club book fair book groups book launch books bookshops burt award caine prize caine prize 2012 shortlist carligh chibundu onuzo chinua achebe code commonwealth writers prize 2011 cookbooks culd education epp gawbofest ghana ghana association of writers ghana book trust ghanaian fiction ghanaian 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