@booklet {11746, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Earth, Fire, Air, Water{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine}, volume = {no. 22}, year = {2022}, month = {July 2022}, pages = {88-99}, abstract = {

The story is set in South Africa when nuclear bombs are set off all over Europe and on various islands bringing radioactive fallout and causing huge tsunamis to hit South Africa. The story is told as a series of lectures given sixty years later by a man who had been a young boy at the time. The story ends foreshadowing the final lecture which will discuss the eutopia that has been created.\ 

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author, South African author}, url = {https://omenana.com/2022/07/03/earth-fire-air-water-manu-herbstein/ }, author = {Manu Herbstein (b. 1936)} } @booklet {11395, title = {"Dust"}, howpublished = {Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine}, volume = {no. 20}, year = {2021}, month = {December 21, 2021}, abstract = {

Climate change story set in a future Ghana when the rains stopped. In the story an old man who stayed in his village is being interviewed by a young man from the city and reminds the young man of how hard life had always been for people in the countryside.

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author}, url = {https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/dust-by-kwasi-adi-dako/}, author = {Kwasi Adi-Dako} } @booklet {11041, title = {{\textquotedblleft}[Pink Heart Shape]{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow{\textquoteright}s Architecture}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {104-11}, publisher = {The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The story begins and ends with a young woman living in poverty in Ghana, dependent of remittances from her sister in London. In between is a discussion African migration, the causes of the woman\’s poverty, and the importance of such remittances.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Ghanaian author, Scottish author, South African author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-9996462-3-3 }, author = {Lesley [Naa Norle] Lokko and Maria Smith}, editor = {Edwina Attlee and Phineas Harper} } @booklet {11247, title = {"The Unseen"}, howpublished = {How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {234-65 [65-71]}, publisher = {Meatspace Press}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future that is completely connected and surveilled by a company like Cambridge Analytica told from the point-of-view of a teenager who doesn\’t fit the parameters. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors\’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Ghanaian author, Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-0-9955776-7-1 }, author = {Jeremy W. Crampton and Kara C. Hoover}, editor = {Mark Graham and Rob Kitchin and Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw} } @booklet {10717, title = {President Michelle or Ten Days That Shook the World: A Subversive Political Fantasy}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, pages = {50 pp.}, publisher = {Author}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

During the 2012 election, Barak Obama has a heart attack, Michelle Obama is chosen to replace him as the candidate, and easily wins. The novel reports her first ten days in office during which she proposes and gets passed into law An Act to Restore Democracy to the United States of America that eliminates all contribution to politicians. In addition, she proposes to close all U.S. military bases abroad and bring all U.S. forces and material home while developing cooperation with other nations. And, among other things, she intends to radically improve the U.S. health care system.\ 

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author, South African author}, isbn = { 9789988233075}, author = {Manu Herbstein (b. 1936)} } @booklet {10722, title = {Ramseyer{\textquoteright}s Ghost}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, pages = {222 pp.}, publisher = {Author}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The novel is set in after the Third World War, which ended in a stalemate with the world now split between two powers, and the U.S. sends secret missions to Africa to find needed resources. One mission to Ghana goes missing, and an African American marine is sent to find it and arrange for its rescue. Ghana no longer has a functioning central government, and tribes have developed their own systems, including, where the protagonist lands, a local democracy.\ 

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author, South African author}, isbn = {978-9988-2-4316-6}, author = {Manu Herbstein (b. 1936)} } @booklet {9020, title = {Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters. A Novel}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, publisher = {Woeli Publishing Services}, address = {Accra, Gandhi}, abstract = {

Complex satire directed mostly at religion set in a dystopian world in which the rich and poor are becoming more deeply divided through genetic engineering.

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author}, author = {[Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946)} } @booklet {4599, title = {Black Fury}, year = {1995}, month = {1995}, publisher = {Woeli Publishing Services}, address = {Accra, Ghana}, abstract = {

Imaginary dystopian colony and the successful revolt to establish freedom.

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author}, author = {Abaidoo, Kodwo} } @booklet {4601, title = {Osiris Rising: A Novel of Africa, Past, Present and Future}, year = {1995}, month = {1995}, publisher = {Per Ankh}, address = {Popenguine, Senegal}, abstract = {

Uses the Osiris myth to explore the current authoritarian dystopia that is many African states and suggests a way forward based on the African past.

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author}, author = {Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939)} } @booklet {4341, title = {Major Gentl and the Achimota War}, year = {1992}, month = {1992}, publisher = {Heinemann}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Achimota City in 2020 A.D. is the scene of a war between good and evil. Some dystopia and some eutopia. Surreal. Includes a Glossary.

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author}, author = {[Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946)} } @booklet {3958, title = {Woman of the Aeroplanes}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, publisher = {Heinemann}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Something of a comic novel where time and causality completely askew. Tukwan is the utopia where everybody in the town was a reincarnation of someone from the town, and this would continue until all problems solved.

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author}, author = {[Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946)} } @booklet {3030, title = {The Healers: An Historical Novel}, year = {1978}, month = {1978}, publisher = {East African Publishing House}, address = {Nairobi, Kenya}, abstract = {

The novel is set at the fall of the Ashanti Empire, destroyed by internal disunity in Africa combined with European power. The dystopia is offset by the vision of African unity of The Healers. Clearly a call for Africans to unify.

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author}, author = {Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939)} } @booklet {2624, title = {Two Thousand Seasons}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Heinemann Educational, 1979.

}, month = {1973}, publisher = {East African Publishing House}, address = {Nairobi, Kenya}, abstract = {

A re-envisioned past of Africa as an egalitarian eutopia.

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author}, author = {Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939)} } @booklet {2179, title = {The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born}, year = {1968}, month = {1968}, publisher = {Heinemann}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of the contemporary Congo.

}, keywords = {Ghanaian author, Male author}, author = {Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939)} }