Accra Noir

Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such talesones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sinsis woven into the fabric of the citys everyday life . . . Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nations soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence, the colonial imposition, declarations of freedom, followed by coups dtat, decades of dictatorship, and then, finally, a steady march forward into a promising future . . . Much like Accra, these stories are not always what they seem. The contributors who penned them know too well how to spin a story into a web . . . It is an honour and a pleasure to share them and all they reveal about Accra, a city of allegories, one of the most dynamic and diverse places in the world.