Jesse Weaver: 3 books

Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground...

Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian...

BOBY is the story and experiences of a young boy as he was growing up. The story includes some of his moral weakness and strengths; his admiration and love for his parents that he feels came too late in life. That love also extended too many relatives and friends. Some of which are in BOBY.