A review by misspalah
The Prophet of Zongo Street by Mohammed Naseehu Ali

4.0

I seldom read short stories collection because it is usually left me dissatisfied with open ending or mediocre level writing stories in it. However, seeing this book in a shelves of a book store intrigued me to pick and bought it. I know nothing about Ghana and reading this may not illustrate 100% the people, culture or their country, but at least, I know a little bit about them. There are some of the stories that I can't shake them off right after finishing it, there are some I forgot about it after turning the next pages. 'The True Aryan' and 'The manhood test' , 'Mallam Sole' and 'faith' definitely made me urges myself to read faster because I wanted to know how the tales are going to end. Overall, this is an interesting read where the place setting in a book interchange frequently from Ghana to New York. The characters that featured in a book though majority is a Ghanaian, there are some new Yorkers and Armenian in it. I gave it 4 stars.