Paa Mannoh

Broschiertes Buch

Great Encounter

Beschreibung

The Great Encounter is a novel that captures the early centuries of European engagement in Africa. Paa Mannoh takes snippets of history, introspection into the mannerism of fishermen of the territory that used to be called the Gold Coast, the Europeans' manner of engagement with Africans, then and present, and comes out with a classic novel. The story is told with the backdrop of the life of Esi Atta, later Latinized Isabellita Hermona, a nine year old girl of Elmina-the foremost European settlement on the Gold Coast in the fifteenth century. Esi's courage saved the lives of a crew of Spanish adventures who trespassed to trade on the Guinea coast that was the official territory of Portugal. These were times that the papal bull forbade any other European Christian nation from trading on the God-given territory of another. These were times too that European nations, tempted by the huge profits in slave trade and piracy, aligned with local chiefs and engaged in the crudest warfare among mankind. In gratitude, Esi is put aboard a ship to Spain. She gets the opportunity of having the best education any contemporary Spanish young lady could be privileged to have, and spends an eventful four decades in Europe in an era of tremendous rapid change. Esi returns, but Gold Coast too is undergoing a period of social and tribal adjustment and cultural change. Would the sophistication she had acquired make her capable of adjusting to the African society?

Autor

Paa Kofi Mannoh was born at Saltpond in Southern Ghana, the geographical territory that used to be called the Gold Coast. His first shot at creative writing was in 1994, when the national television station organized a scriptwriting competition. This attempt earned him an award. In 1997, he won the country's most coveted literary award, Valco Trust Fund Literary Award, for meritorious writing for his story, Vain Prejudice. Naturally inspired by this, he formed his own production company, Ideal Concept Productions. He is credited with writing and directing a number of works, including soap operas, 'The Young, the Old', 'Oxford Street', features, 'Kakraba', 'Dogo Yaro', 'Blackman, White Brother', and a number of audio and video adverts for corporate organizations. Great Encounter is the first of an important trilogy that gives an insight into early centuries of Africa's response to Europe's intervention into their territory and their way of life. The second of the trilogy is 'The Turbulence' and the third, 'Positive Action'. All these stories uses the backdrop of real historical people to create a novel that gives a satirical rendition of this great encounter of the two races that providence has caused to be intrinsically linked for confrontation and collaboration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9781514464991
• ISBN-10: 1514464993
• Artikelnr.: 45661791