Kwame Mainu was driving his daughter, Akosua, and her friends back to Coventry from their school in Warwick. The girls asked him for a
Short Fiction
An Appeal to the King of Ashanti
In 1996, in Kumasi, Ghana, Kwame Mainu had succeeded in persuading the albino linguist, Kofi Adjare, to leave what remained of the drugs cartel.
Hoping to Recover His Estranged Wife
Kwame Mainu’s wife, Comfort, had left him with their daughter, Akosua, in 1988, just before he took his final examinations in mechanical engineering at
Complicated Relationships With Prisoners
One of Kwame Mainu’s assistants at Warwick University, Sandra Garg, had fallen in love with one of the Kumasi academics chosen in 1996 to
Guarding Against Absconding and Drugs Trafficking
In the 1990s, Kwame Mainu was employed by Warwick University in England on a partnership programme with Kumasi University in his homeland, Ghana. The
A Risky Search For An Absconding Apprentice
Kwame Mainu’s partner, Afriyie, had a small part-time business making ladies’ dresses and providing repair and adjustment services, mostly for the ladies attached to
King Duncan Prepares to Invade England
At the end of an earlier war, King Freddie of England had negotiated a treaty with Scotland to establish a fifty-mile demilitarised zone north
Succeeding With the Help of His Estranged Wife
Kwame Mainu’s mission in Kumasi had been greatly helped by his now not so estranged wife, Comfort. Together they had sought the intervention of
A Difficult Choice: Estranged Wife or Loyal Mistress?
During visits to Kumasi in the mid-1990s, Kwame Mainu’s feelings for his estranged wife, Comfort, had revived, and he had begun to hope that
Can a Stone Castle Float?
It was in the days of Good King Freddie. The king’s onerous duties kept him in London for most of the year but usually,