Books and resources

For children

• Illustrated English-Ga Alphabet

  Flora Trebi-Ollennu, 2023

  A picture alphabet in Ga and English.

  From Amazon

• ABD: Ga Alphabet

  Teaching the Diaspora

  A Ga alphabet picture book, with audio.

  From Teaching the Diaspora

• Ga phonics books and number flashcards

  Booknook

  Early reading and counting in Ga.

  From Booknook

• Ga language books

  Ceekoko

  For children aged 4 and up.

  From Ceekoko

• Ga-English picture book for kids

  Independent seller

  A printable book of more than 200 words.

  From Etsy

Books about Ghana

These are in English.

• Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

  Laurie Ann Thompson, illustrated by Sean Qualls, 2015

  A Ghanaian boy born with one weak leg cycles across Ghana.

  Buy from Bookshop.org

• Nana Akua Goes to School

  Tricia Elam Walker, illustrated by April Harrison, 2020

  A girl brings her Ghanaian grandmother to school on Grandparents Day.

  Buy from Bookshop.org

• Going to Ghana

  Christine Platt, 2020

  Ana and Andrew, from the Ana & Andrew series, visit Ghana.

  Buy from Bookshop.org

• Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti

  Gerald McDermott, 1972

  An Akan folk tale of Anansi and his six sons.

  Buy from Bookshop.org

• A Story, a Story: An African Tale

  Gail E. Haley, 1970

  How Anansi bought the stories from the Sky God.

  Buy from Bookshop.org

Before you buy a book in Ga, check the Ga spelling. Some "first words" books are made in bulk for many languages, and their Ga can be wrong. Search this dictionary if a word looks odd.

For grown-ups

• Ga-English Dictionary

  M. E. Kropp Dakubu

  The standard modern dictionary of Ga.

  Find it in WorldCat (libraries)

• Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

  M. E. Kropp Dakubu, 1997

  How the languages of Accra grew up together.

  Buy from Bookshop.org

• Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra

  John Parker, 2000

  A history of the Ga towns.

  Find it in WorldCat (libraries)

• Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana: The Tabom

  Kwame Essien, 2016

  The Tabom people of Accra, who returned from Brazil.

  Buy from Bookshop.org

• Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra

  Jennifer Hart, 2024

  How colonial Accra was built, and how its people lived in it.

  Buy from Bookshop.org

• Ghana: A Political and Social History

  Jeffrey Ahlman, 2023

  Ghana from the Gold Coast to 1992.

  Buy from Bookshop.org

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