Review
Cleverly juxtaposing the historic shackles of slavery with a modern day struggle for survival, Leonard Boameh's plight to escape the clutches of a street gang in Bernard Ashley's Angel Boy offers an astute cross-sectionof Ghanaian society. An intelligent and profound exploration of personal freedom underpins the tension and tautness in this perfectly plotted thriller. --The Bookseller, 21st March 2008
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The holidays lie heavy on young Leonard Boameh. His schoolfriends live far away from his home town of Accra, his nana is no fun, and his dad - who's great - is away working most of the time. So Leonard decides to run away for a few hours, and when Nana isn't looking he takes the tro-tro bus to Elmina, a historic European fort built to imprison West African slaves shipped off to America. There are lots of rough kids begging there, and before Leonard knows what's happening, he is kidnapped by the meanest gang of all, who plan to use his angel-face to fleece the tourists. Leonard is now a slave, trying to escape from a living nightmare. Bernard Ashley's thought-provoking Ghanaian story, set in the sinister, poverty-driven underworld of gangland, leads to a taut, thrilling climax.
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