Money Galore

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AMU DJOLETO published his first növel, The Strange Man (AWS41), in 1967. He was born in a small Ghanaian village in 1929. He went to Accra Academy and St Augustine's College, Cape Coast before reading English at the University of Ghana. He later studied textbook production at the Institute of Education, University of London. He became editor of the Ghana Teachers' Journal and was for a time Principal Education Officer in the Ministry of Education. He is now Deputy Chief Education Officer in the Ministry. With T. H. S. Kwami he has edited a selection from the African Writers Series called West African Prose. He has published other textbooks. This witty, extravagant but seriously intended satire marks the arrival of Ghana's answer to T. M. Aluko. Abraham Kofi Kafu finds teaching a hard grind and lacking in rewards. He stands for the Liberation Party, the party of businessmen, landlords, smallholders and taxi drivers. As Minister of Internál Welfare Kafu pursues his political career... Tovább

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AMU DJOLETO published his first növel, The Strange Man (AWS41), in 1967. He was born in a small Ghanaian village in 1929. He went to Accra Academy and St Augustine's College, Cape Coast before reading English at the University of Ghana. He later studied textbook production at the Institute of Education, University of London. He became editor of the Ghana Teachers' Journal and was for a time Principal Education Officer in the Ministry of Education. He is now Deputy Chief Education Officer in the Ministry. With T. H. S. Kwami he has edited a selection from the African Writers Series called West African Prose. He has published other textbooks. This witty, extravagant but seriously intended satire marks the arrival of Ghana's answer to T. M. Aluko. Abraham Kofi Kafu finds teaching a hard grind and lacking in rewards. He stands for the Liberation Party, the party of businessmen, landlords, smallholders and taxi drivers. As Minister of Internál Welfare Kafu pursues his political career with a lively devotion to women, drink, gambling and skulduggery of various kinds and an almost totál aversion to work unless it is devoted to somé personal end. He is supported by a large cast: a crooked but amiable contractor, Anson Berko; a less amiable and even more crooked contractor, Nee Otu Lartey; the Permanent Secretary, Mr Vuga, an ineffably dreary civil servant who strives to manipulate Kafu as he has manipulated previous Ministers but alsó turns out to be as crooked and so is subject to blackmail; the slimy Reverend Dan Opia Sese, who takes over as headmaster from Benjy Baisi and seduces Kafu's maid. But even Kafu cannot get away with it for ever. Vissza