'Faceless' by Amma Darko

“It cuts across genders, but it seems to be more prevalent with young males. Maybe it has to do with the faceless formless masculine thing, whatever that 'thing' is. What appears to be the case, though, it that it is more difficult to break the 'streetness' in boys from the streets than in girls.” This socially committed and subtle novel presents in a convincing and realist style, a bird's eye view of life in the slums of Accra. Amma Darko is one of the most significant contemporary Ghanaian literary writers and this is her third novel.