#ruby yayra goka

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I read through the essay and hit the upload button to send in my application.

Ruby Yayra Goka, from Even When Your Voice Shakes

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Amorkor read everything--books, scraps of newspapers that the sellers wrap fish in, inscriptions on T-shirts, labels on bottles...everything. She'd read the Bible cover to cover three times. Sometimes I thought her body needed words to live, the way the rest of us need water. If she didn't have anything to read, she became cranky.

~Even When Your Voice Shakes by Ruby Yayra Goka

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Book digest: Aaiún Nin, Dami Ajayi, Ruby Yayra Goka, Clifford Oluoch

Book digest: Aaiún Nin, Dami Ajayi, Ruby Yayra Goka, Clifford Oluoch

We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Aaiún Nin, Dami Ajayi, Ruby Yayra Goka, and Clifford Oluoch. A Perfect Score by Clifford Chianga Oluoch Publisher:  Odijo FoundationPublication Date: 2021Genre: Nonfiction, memoirLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Nuria Books Clifford Chianga Oluoch Clifford Chianga Oluoch Clifford Chianga Oluoch is a…

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (February 15th, 2022)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Reclaim the Stars by Various

All the Right Reasons by Bethany Mangle

The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe

Three Left Turns to Nowhere by Jeffrey Ricker, J. Marshall Freeman, & 'Nathan Burgoine

Even When Your Voice Shakes by Ruby Yayra Goka

The Last Minute by Nissa Harlow

Oathbound by Victoria McCombs

Cramm this Book by Olivia Seltzer

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New Sequels: 

Witchy Volume 2 (Witchy #2) by Ariel Slamet Ries

The Obsidian Butterfly (The Age of the Seventh Sun #3) by Lani Forbes

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Happy reading!

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10 Ghanaian Writers Who Write For Children

10 Ghanaian Writers Who Write For Children

If you have ever lost yourself in the magical world of children’s literature, you will admit, first of all, that children’s literature is a special kind of literary work. You will also wish that there were more Ghanaian writers who write dreams into realities for children and young adults. It is tempting to think that children’s literature is easy work. After all, who couldn’t come up with…

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Even When Your Voice Shakes by: Ruby Yayra Goka

Even When Your Voice Shakes by: Ruby Yayra Goka

A young woman speaks out against her wealthy abuser in this riveting YA novel from one of Ghana’s most celebrated children’s book authors. When Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother’s old school friends, she knows she has to accept. Her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won’t have to worry about them. Amerley’s move to Accra…

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Translations: Ruby Yayra Goka, Djaili Amadou Amal, Monique Ilboudo, Scholastique Mukasonga

Translations: Ruby Yayra Goka, Djaili Amadou Amal, Monique Ilboudo, Scholastique Mukasonga

Translations for books by Ruby Yayra Goka, Djaili Amadou Amal, Monique Ilboudo, and Scholastique Mukasonga are available, or coming soon, for your reading pleasure. Book: So Distant from My LifeOriginal Title:  Si loin de ma vieAuthor: Monique IlboudoTranslator: Yarri KamaraPublisher: Tilted Axis PressPublishing Date: October 27, 2022Language:  French to EnglishWhere to Find it: Click…

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Sheilla Aisha Nelson is Kofi Awoonor Literary Prize 2018 winner.

Sheilla Aisha Nelson is Kofi Awoonor Literary Prize 2018 winner.

The Kofi Awoonor Literary Prize 2018 winner is Sheilla Aisha Nelson. Ruby Yayra Goka and Elizabeth O. Johnson are the first runner up and the second runner up consecutively.

The Kofi Awoonor Literary Prize was established in honour of Ghanaian poet, writer and academic Prof Kofi Awoonor who passed away tragically while attending a literary festival in Kenya. The award is organised by the…

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CODE Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 2018 shortlist announced.

CODE Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 2018 shortlist announced.

The CODE Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 2018 shortlist was announced on August 2, 2018. The five in the running for the prize are Vera Akumiah, Kinyanjui Kombani, Ruby Yayra Goka, Elizabeth-Irene Baitie, and Hiwot Walelign.

The CODE Burt Award is a literary award and readership initiative that recognizes excellence in locally authored literature for young adults, ages 12-18. The…