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Bananas in the Rafters: An African Classic
Bananas in the Rafters: An African Classic
Bananas in the Rafters: An African Classic
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Bananas in the Rafters, sweeps the ardent young reader into a youthful adventure filled with great ethnic and cultural awakening, set within a world that has been misrepresented for centuries to many a non-African born child. Focusing on a small town located in a fictional West African nation, the children of Saint Pauls Parish come alive once more after their celebration in The Christmas Hut, (also by the author) to share an important period in their lives while growing up in a part of the world within a continent, that is often tainted with massive socioeconomic setbacks and underdevelopment.

Bananas in the rafters, focuses on families, leaders, children and average citizens, living within a community that operates within a grander culture of tribes, separated traditionally by religion, and culturally by dialects yet strongly united by nationality as one people. Its captivating text educates the young reader about a world out there, where the author once thrived as a child, as it uniquely weaves an enlightening variety of subject matters, from the yarns of family values, education and individual life experiences while sparingly dipping them into rigid realistic dyes of colonization, independence, revolutions, and an aspiring fight for national stability, before spinning them on looms that strengthen the stitching of history, education, and development together, in order to produce the best sociocultural fabric fit for the prospective wholesome blooming of the growing child. It is, indeed, the ultimate book tailored for this progressive era of cultural awareness and ethnic embrace. For within its pages, the readers imagination, as well as eyes, are open into the original workings of the African culture, in a far more practical way, than has ever been made literarily tasteful and readily accessible, to any African-authored young adult reader.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateDec 16, 2014
ISBN9781496958389
Bananas in the Rafters: An African Classic
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MSE. Dzirasa

MSE. Dzirasa is an Up and Coming Equatorial Author and Illustrator, with a Library Studies and Early childhood education and experience, in Ghana and the United States respectively. As a person born in the 60s, bred and educated along the Gulf of Guinea, within a family of Politics and Academics, she became a lover of the printed word at an early age. Her writing ability has always been prominent from Primary through higher education. She is also known to her friends on face book as the literary voice against corrupt leadership in her native land Ghana. She is an animal lover and Activist in matters concerning regulated and principled democracy for her people. But above all, she loves to write from life; especially for the Internationally young, so as to introduce, connect and share with them the richness, diversity, yet inclusiveness of the African culture, while proudly showcasing the hospitably woven fabric of the resilient and enduring texture of the ethnicity within which she was nurtured. The Christmas Hut appears on bookshelves as her first of many- to- come, originally created and illustrated reading/picture book series named, “Equatorial Reader”

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