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A
Letter to My Dying
Mother
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Surviving in
the West
by Robert
Peprah-Gyamfi |
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UK price:
£11.90 US
price:
$20.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 282
ISBN: 0-595-34794-0
Published: Mar-2005
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See the author's web site
How can words describe the
huge difference between life
in a little village in a
typical developing country
in Africa and that of a city
in the sophisticated West?
Well, that exactly is what
the book sets out to
achieve.
This often humorous,
sometimes poignant book goes
to considerable lengths to
review almost every aspect
of life in the two highly
contrasting settings of an
African village and the
sophisticated lifestyle of
an industrialised city as
found in modern Germany—from
the family set-up within the
two differing
communities, the way
conflicts in both societies
are resolved, how the two
societies bury their dead,
right down to developments
in social infrastructure. It
is a book that will be read
with interest not only by
anyone from the developing
countries aspiring for the
first time to visit the
West, but also by any
resident of the
industrialised West keen to
know how the common peasant
population of a village
like Mpintimpi in a
developing country go about
their daily lives.
Book Description
What a world we live in!
Whereas in some places
residents have to fight hard
to resist the temptation not
to overfeed themselves, at
other places people are
threatened at best with
malnutrition, if not
starvation.
In this readable and
entertaining book, the
author, who came from Ghana
to become a medical doctor
in Germany, sets out to
highlight some of these
inequalities as he attempts
to compare and contrast the
simple and communal
lifestyle of a traditional
African society with the
sophisticated and egocentric
one he found in Western
society. Addressed to his
mother in her final battle
with death, and sent through
a fictitious courier, it
attempts, among other
things, to give her, a woman
who spent all her life in a
typical African countryside,
an idea of the things she
would have seen and
experienced on a visit to
her son resident in the
northern German city of
Hannover.
The book is an invaluable
guide for anyone from a
developing country who for
the first time visits or
wishes to settle in the
West; but it will also be
read with keen interest by
people in the West wishing
to know more of traditional
African society.
About the author
Robert
Peprah-Gyamfi was born
Ghana
, in a tiny village with the big name of Mpintimpi. He
faced many difficulties and
challenges, surviving
illnesses and horrendous
treatments by traditional
witch-doctors, attending
school in spite of having to
traverse remote bush paths.
Today he is a medical doctor
in Duesseldorf, a city about
three hundred kilometres to
the south-west of
Hannover .
Also by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi:
This inspiring story tells
of the courage of a young
Ghanaian boy who, having
failed to achieve his aim to
become a medical doctor by
attending a university in
Ghana or by virtue of a
scholarship to the USSR,
raised funds by working on a
building site in Nigeria to
pay for a daring one-way
flight to East Berlin to
become an asylum seeker in
West Berlin—a route by which
he realised his dreams and
became a medical doctor in
Germany.
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Be Encouraged in
Jesus
by Robert
Peprah-Gyamfi |
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UK
price:
£6.56
US
price:
$9.35
Format: Paperback
Size : 21.6 x
14 x 0.7 cm
Pages: 252
ISBN: 0-595-32298-0
Publisher:
Xulon Press
Published:
31 Jan 2007 |
A collection of poems of
praise and supplication. The
verses remind us that the
Lord's grace, strength and
love are sufficient for our
needs and will sustain us
throughout any difficulty.
Other
formats: HARD COVER: UK
price:
£15.00
US price:
$28.95
The author, a medical doctor
in the UK, revisits his
native Ghana after 13 years'
absence to find many
positive changes and
developments in spite of
lingering economic and
social problems. The book is
a fascinating journey of
discovery for the reader new
to Ghana, but will be
enjoyed by Ghanaian readers
too.
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Seeing God Through
the Human
Body:
A
Doctor's Meditation
on the Human Miracle
by Robert
Peprah-Gyamfi |
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UK
price:
£7.68
US
price:
$11.01
Format: Paperback
Size : 21.6 x
13.8 x 1.4 cm
Pages: 160
ISBN:
978-0981764399
Publisher:
Anomalos Publishing
Edited by
Diadem Books
Published: 15
Feb 2009 |
Seeing
God through the Human Body
is a head-on confrontation
with Charles Darwin’s Theory
of Evolution. In it, a
medical doctor and
creationist uses his
learning and insight as a
doctor to defuse the theory
of evolution and make a case
in favour of God Almighty,
in the creation of the human
body. Appealing to common
sense and drawing upon his
medical knowledge, the
author argues that the
functioning of the various
organs of the body are so
intricate that they could
only have come about through
remarkably clever
forethought and planning.
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