New book ‘The Usurper's Dream' explores Ashanti Empire's deity, gods and magic
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- 09 Sep 2022
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The West has been very deliberate in creating its local heroes in recent times. Fiction has been a way of doing this through the advent of characters – many of which have become household names, while others have been morphed into movies and animations produced by Marvel Studios, DC Comics and others.
Yeayi Kobina was among the millions of Ghanaians who took a liking to these heroes from elsewhere while growing up. But he never appreciated why these literature outside of Ghana were promoted at the expense of the indigenous ones.
“I didn’t get the hype over all these marvel heroes when we had our own,” he told Myjoyonline.com in an interview.
As an author, he assessed the situation with the aim of identifying why this was the case and concluded that “until we projected them in a literary way, no one was going to care.”
For him, though some writers have made strides at telling stories of our local context, more can be done.
Fortunately, Ghana has a ton of heroic and hope-imbibing stories which have historically made it through time despite the conservative nature of the country’s literature. Read More...
