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COMMENTS ON FACELESS BY AMMA DARKO

About the Author Amma Darko was born in the year 1956, in Koforidua, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. She studied in Kumasi, where she received her diploma in 1980. Then she worked for the Science and Technology Center in Kumasi. During the 1980s, she lived and worked for some time in Germany. Afterwards, she traveled to Germany where she stayed from 1981 until 1987 and wrote her first novel, Beyond the Horizon , which was published in German. Faceless is her third novel.  Amma  enjoys research and spends a lot of time with interviews and in archives. In 2008, she received the most important literary prize in her country, the Ghana Book Award. Faceless has been selected for the official literature list of the West African Examination Council for Senior Secondary Schools. She also has the book Not without flowers to her credit. Her work has been discussed in several academic journals as well. Analysis of Faceless Faceless is a compelling story of children plunged onto the stre