Short Fiction

Kwame Mainu was driving his daughter, Akosua, and her friends back to Coventry from their school in Warwick. The girls asked him for a

In 1996, in Kumasi, Ghana, Kwame Mainu had succeeded in persuading the albino linguist, Kofi Adjare, to leave what remained of the drugs cartel.

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

In the 1990s, Kwame Mainu was employed by Warwick University in England on a partnership programme with Kumasi University in his homeland, Ghana. The

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

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

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

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

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

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,