Grace Omaboe

This short by Akosua Adoma Owusu offers a spellbinding, semi-autobiographical interpretation of a traditional Ghanaian folktale in which the contemporary collides with the mythological in both content and form.

Against the picturesque Ghanaian backdrop, Children of the Mountain is an honest exploration of a mother’s will in the face of much adversity. When her baby is born with a cleft lip, cerebral palsy, and Down syndrome, Essuman is led to believe that she has a ‘dirty womb.’ Her promising future as a wife and mother is shattered as her lover disowns her and the community eyes her with suspicion.

After years of single parenthood and betrayal from her baby’s father, a woman is helped by her best friend to find love and a business success.

A married man named Bob travels out of the country, leaving his wife Nancy to face financial and psychological hardships, difficulties on both sides of the family, as well as a treacherous and envious friend. Nancy manages to endure many obstacles and is ultimately faced with a critical decision

Effe, is a pretty young woman who prefers dating much older, and usually married men. Effe leaves her home to escape her mother’s criticism of her behavior and stays with her friend’s family. While at her friend Kate’s house, Effe has an affair with Kate’s father as well and ruins the dynamics of that family

After being forced to stay in Ghana with her grandmother, an 11 year old American girl becomes a target in a local occult attack.

A Ghanaian Romantic-Comedy

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.