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Alexander’s latest verse novel, the first in a projected trilogy, is historical fiction set in 1860, in an Asante Kingdom village. Kofi Offin learns about the world through his storyteller grandfather Nana Mosi: how he came to be named after the river; the origin of the rivalry with neighboring Lower Kwanta; and the history of “the wonderfuls,” the white colonials who have claimed dominion over their nation of Ghana.

From the July 2022 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.