# Accra Noir

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- Book: [Accra Noir](https://www.bookquiver.com/meri-nana-ama-danquah/accra-noir) ([Accra Noir.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/meri-nana-ama-danquah/accra-noir.md))
- Authors: [Meri Nana-Ama Danquah](https://www.bookquiver.com/meri-nana-ama-danquah)
- Publisher: Cassava Republic
- ISBN: 978-19-1317-521-4
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2021-04-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales—ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins—is woven into the fabric of the city’s everyday life . . . Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation’s soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence, the colonial imposition, declarations of freedom, followed by coups d’état, decades of dictatorship, and then, finally, a steady march forward into a promising future . . . Much like Accra, these stories are not always what they seem. The contributors who penned them know too well how to spin a story into a web . . . It is an honour and a pleasure to share them and all they reveal about Accra, a city of allegories, one of the most dynamic and diverse places in the world.