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For younger readers

Boateng, Faustine Ama. Asante. Rosen, 1997. For readers in grades 5 to 7.

Brace, Steve. Ghana. Thomson Learning, 1995. For readers in grades 4 to 8.

McKissack, Patricia, and Frederick McKissack. The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa. Holt, 1994. For middle school and high school readers.

Ghana

Allman, Jean Marie. The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana. University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Examination of Ghana's current political strife as an extension of its past.

Assimeng, J. Max, ed. Traditional Life, Culture and Literature in Ghana. Conch, 1976. Collection of essays by Ghanaians.

Davidson, Basil. Black Star: A View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah. Westview, 1989. On the first prime minister and president of Ghana.

Edgerton, Robert B. The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred Year War for Africa's Gold Coast. Free Press, 1995. Travelers narratives, Asante oral histories, and British eyewitness accounts round out this military history of the Asante resistance to British rule.

Herbst, Jeffrey Ira. The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991. University of California Press, 1993.

Nugent, Paul. Big Men, Small Boys, and Politics in Ghana: Power, Ideology, and the Burden of History. Pinter, 1995. The rise of President Jerry Rawlings and the Provisional National Defence Council, and prospects for the future.