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  • President Michelle, or Ten Days that Shook the World
    Manu Herbstein
    Manu Herbstein's short tale is a political logbook of the days following Michelle Obama's inauguration as the first female president of the United States. Having been catapulted to the presidential post by a zealous electorate in search of stability and reassurance following the untimely death of President Obama, the mourning Mrs. Obama arrived without campaigning, owin...
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  • Akosua and Osman
    Manu Herbstein
    “Karatu, farkonka madaci, karshenka zuma.” (Study is difficult but the rewards are great.)Akosua Annan is a confident and fiercely intelligent student at a posh school in Cape Coast, Ghana. There she comes under the influence of a charismatic feminist teacher.Osman Said’s background is very different. Upon the death of his parents, a police sergeant and an unschooled market tra...
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  • Ramseyer’s Ghost
    Manu Herbstein
    2050.The global village has disintegrated.The Third World War, ending in a stalemate, has left the planet split between two hostile powers, each with a captive sphere of influence. The Atlantic Ocean has become an American sea.West Africa has become a desert of failed states and anarchy, dotted with mines and oil rigs, stockaded and armed by U. S. corporations.  From their isla...
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  • Brave Music of a Distant Drum
    Manu Herbstein
    Ama is an enslaved African woman. In Brazil, old and ill, she is determined that the story of her life shall survive for future generations. Her story is one of violence and heartache, but also of courage, hope, determination, and ultimately, love. Since Ama is blind, she has to dictate to her long separated only son, Kwame Zumbi. Kwame - named Zacharias Williams by the white C...
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  • Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
    Manu Herbstein
    “I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, I have never been a slave; inside me, here and here, I am still a free woman.”During a period of 400 years, European slave traders ferried some 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. In the Americas, teaching a slave to read ...
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  • The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti’s Eye
    Manu Herbstein
    Sargrenti is the name by which Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley, KCMG (1833 – 1913) is still known in the West African state of Ghana.Kofi Gyan, the 15-year old boy who spits in Sargrenti’s eye, is the nephew of the chief of Elmina, a town on the Atlantic coast of Ghana. On Christmas Day, 1871, Kofi’s godfather gives him a diary as a Christmas present and charges him with the ...
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