The Ghanaian Revolution

The exciting account of the birth of Ghana, newest memeber of the British Commonwealth of Nations—the story of a bid for freedom crowned with success.

The story, too, of Ghana's dynamic leader, Kwame Nkrumah—greatest living African.

Here is Ghana. Past, present—and future.

The author himself was eye-witness to the stirring events of Independence Day which he so vividly recounts.

Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, was a Pan-Africanist and an internationalist, and this book includes contributions from leading commentators-those who worked and fought imperialism alongside Nyerere, members of a younger generation, and Nyerere in his own words. The writings reflect on Nyerere and liberation, the Commonwealth, leadership, economic development, land, human rights, and education. Above all, they are a testament to the growing recognition of the need to rekindle the fires of African socialism to which Nyerere was deeply committed.

It was Africa in 15-16th centuries, when animal hides served as clothing, thatches as roofs, and knife duels were as free as excreting. A time when gods fought gods, men fought men, and influential chiefs carried out bloody expeditions into weaker villages and clans killing everyone, forcing men into their band of warriors, and annihilating children and women.

Only one force was behind all these, a strange god known as Ogwa. Then, Okemini the greatest god of the land, came down to the land, and was born as a man called Okeali to liberate the people. But Okeali went contrary to the stipulations of the gods, and was influenced by Ogwa, a god he came to fight. Okeali founded the Unwu apvu criminal organization, married twenty-one wives, and annihilated his own children, wives, and people and lived by the sword. He was revered by his people and was unable to be assassinated.

Okeali was truly The Dancing Bird. He put an end to the customs of the land, killed the traditions, closed the eyes of the gods, and made rain fell only in his own compound. But would the bird dance forever?

The Dancing Bird gives intimate and captivating information about Africa, the language, people, history and religions? A novel that will appeal not just to everyone in the globe that appreciates a dramatic historic story but to every scholar that wants to embrace cultures and traditions.