“Alke-Bulan Duo And Heritage Tales From Santse” is an uncommon, classical novel – a historical fictional narrative of the saga of Two Ancient Africans, whose identities and personae were inspired by the intriguing Biblical account of Barabbas and Simeon of Cyrene.

The novel is episodic crafted to make the narrative of the Two Ancient Africans be set against the background of the cultural and natural heritage of the protagonist and the children who hear the narration of the saga. The saga of the Two is positioned in the historical settings of the 1st century AD and is recounted by Ataa Forkoyi, the legendary protagonist, to his audience of seven children of the Kerit Kids Klub at the Santse campsite in the Accra Plains of Ghana.

It’s foremost backdrop – an enveloping ambience of settings anchored in the epoch of ancient times and in varying geographical spaces, including Judea, stretching from North-East and North-West Africa (Pelusium, Alexandria, Apollonia and Cyrene), the Sahara Desert, Menroe, Sudan and Ethiopia, is juxtaposed to complementing contexts of explored realities of 19th and 20th centuries’ remarkable natural and cultural heritages of Ghana.

The plot of the novel is lucid, but subtly woven similar to a Ghanaian Kente Cloth, and couched in varying intricate and intriguing circumstances and contexts that essentially frame the novel, characterized by exquisite historical allusions, sharp satirical inferences, fabulous natural history expositions and architectural analytical references, aligned with profoundly scholarly and philosophical reflections.

It is a novel that proclaims a robust and a compelling message of hope for Black African youth and children.

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