Ashorkor: 0.1

Ashorkor: 0.1

by safohen

On a wet Monday morning, on the muddy school field of Jamestown Senior High School, two students charged towards each other. They simultaneously punched each other to the ground. One of them was Naana, the school's best fighter and the other was...

Hawa

Hawa

by safohen

On a dark night in Tamale, 10 children run across an abandoned football pitch. One by one, a dart struck each across the neck and they fell, before being dragged away by gloved hands. Their cries for help reached an old security guard who...

Afena ne )w) (The longsword and the snake)

Afena ne )w) (The longsword and the snake)

by safohen

Afena ne )w) (The longsword and the snake)

In the year 2500, Ghana declared an all-out war against crime. To achieve this, the military, intelligence agencies and the police service were integrated into one formidable body known as...

Mawuli ne kwan (Mawuli's path)

Mawuli ne kwan (Mawuli's path)

by safohen

In a quiet suburb of Accra, a tall dark man in a white suit walked away from the row of houses to the bus station. Once there, he boarded the bus and sat next to a woman, also in a white suit. This would have been a normal occurrence anywhere...

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Ahafo

Ahafo

by safohen

'For years, they have polluted the earth, with their poisons and slowly drained her lifeforce. Did they not think that they would face judgement from Asaase Yaa (Earth goddess)? Did they not realise that she would make them suffer for their...

Esi

Esi

by safohen

In the year 2005, fifteen BNI (Bureau of National Investigation) stealthily approached a clearing in the middle of a forest reserve, where an old woman and 8 children knelt in prayer. After the prayers were said, the woman rose to her feet....

Nsoromma Adekye

Nsoromma Adekye

by safohen

During the same time that Mawuli and several other prisoners were shipped off into space in the Nsoromma, other spacecraft were developed for more commercial purposes. One of them was the Nsoromma Adekye (Evening Star), the only spacecraft...

Mawuli

Mawuli

by safohen

After the success of the Afena (Longsword) Program in lowering crime rates, in the year 5000, it was proposed that those imprisoned would be shipped off to space in the Starship Nsoromma. This ship would orbit the moon and receive special...

Tohajie

Tohajie

by safohen

On a hot Monday morning, two figures faced each other in the centre of the Mole Dagbani settlement. One of them was Tohajie, known as the Red Hunter, because of his fair complexion and his hunting prowess. His opponent was a large royal python,...

Baaba: Chapter 1

Baaba: Chapter 1

by safohen

On a cold, rainy day, the Supi, head of all the asafo companies in the city and a tall, dark schoolgirl entered the Sunyani High School building.

In the SHS Form 2A classroom, the Supi watched quietly as the girl wrote down a...

Baaba; Chapter 3

Baaba; Chapter 3

by safohen

‘It was another hellish morning of asafo fighting kakai, the next day. A particularly skilled kakai had beaten most of the asafo of the 1st Asafo Company on its own. Now it turned its attention to Baaba and darted towards her. She let loose...

Baaba: Chapter 2

Baaba: Chapter 2

by safohen

'Prepare to engage’, Kuukua ordered. Armed to the teeth with bows and arrows, akofenas and afowatsenas(long swords with two or three blades on one hilt),spears and machetes, they rushed to a clearing where kakai had again gathered that night....

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Saadakrom: Chapter 3

Saadakrom: Chapter 3

by safohen

For three rainy days, Akumaa had not been seen at home.

Concerned, Sena set off for the training grounds. Soaked to the skin, she reached the grounds only to find Akumaa seriously training. She struck every raindrop falling near...

Saadakrom; Chapter 2

Saadakrom; Chapter 2

by safohen

In the biggest forest of Saadakrom, under it's largest Odum tree, stood three women. Kneeling in the middle of them was a young girl.

It's founder, Saada held a calabash of white powder, which she sprinkled on the head of the...

Feok

Feok

by safohen

On a sunny day, the warriors of the Builsa gathered in the grand hut of the settlement. Their chief warrior was brief. The Samori and Babatu, infamous slave traders, had been sighted camping across the river from their settlement. Each warrior...

Saadakrom: Chapter 1

Saadakrom: Chapter 1

by safohen

In the heat of the afternoon sun, Saada, a farmer was tending to her crops when three shadows fell across them. She lifted her head to see her parents and the local priestess. The priestess swung her ritual staff across her face, felling her....

Ashorkor: Chapter 2

Ashorkor: Chapter 2

by safohen

Five years later, Lumei Ashorkor received her invitation from the the league of African Martial Artists to participate in the All- African Martial Arts Tournament.

Her first opponent was an asafo skilled in the use of the akofena....

The Girl With Blood In Her Eye

The Girl With Blood In Her Eye
by kellykelz

PAGE ONE: The Girl I Hate

It's amazing how we change, how life turns us from one thing to the other, how it gives...