BOOKS

                           

In Path of Destiny, Nutsukpo tells a beautiful story of love and family life. Against the strongly westernized background of Ghanaians living in the affluent neighbourhoods of Cape Coast and Accra, the author still captures an authentic African setting.

                       

The extraordinary in the "songs" in Essence derives from the author’s love for life, laughter and love, probably cruelly blighted by tragic loss, but none-the-less still relevantly portrayed in her love for language and its possibilities and potentials.

                                     
Fafa Nutsukpo presents, in rhythmic flow, scenes of the ceaseless feud between the “blade” and the “chalice”. Simple words and phrases, yes! But Thoughts of a Daughter speaks and sings with the unique cadence of a sophisticated African feminist.

             

                                                                                   
                                                                                 
             


           

 Honour, or Customary killing defies the laws of modern society, and flagrantly spites individual human rights, and the victim, invariably female, stands condemned, without appeal. In Teardrops from Heaven, a narrative poem, Fafa Margaret Nutsukpo traces the Wayfarer’s stream ofconsciousness – a vista punctuated with real, livable experiences, but devoid of the freedom to will and to choose, all within the family, and their honour.

  
   

The Wayfarers is a clear and loud ‘cry’ of rebellion by womanhood against the intolerable discrimination of African societies and individuals; discrimination born of male chauvinism and against the female gender.