AN INTERESTING and educative book; "CROSSROADS, A Black American Sister in Ghana" by one of Ghana’s experienced writers, Mike Adjei, would be out for cherished readers pretty soon.

The book which would be launched on Thursday, May 31, at 4.30pm at the Teachers' Hall, opposite the Ministry of Information and National Orientation, is an autobiographical novel of 232 pages, partly about racial discrimination in the United States of America in the 1960s.

It tells the story of a group of 16 American university students who attended a work camp to build a community centre for the people of Axim in 1965.

After the camping, one of the four black American girls, Jean Buckle, traveled to Kete Krachie, in the Volta region, with the hope of finding a man her great grandmother had told her, since she was five, she would marry some day.

At Kete Krachi however, she fell sick and was taken to a famous shrine in the town which referred her to another shrine at Larteh in the Eastern Region. She did not meet her expected betrothed till she returned home.

Another of the campers, a white American, was possessed in a shrine at Axim during which he prophesied the fall of the Nkrumah government. The leaders of the camp quickly returned him to the United States from fear that the Special Branch men in Nkrumah's government would have him arrested.

Back in the States, Jean Buckle became a member of the Brown Wolves, the junior chapter of the Black Panthers. What happened afterward is an interesting story one needs to grab a copy of the book to enjoy.

Mike Adjei echoed in his book the need for Black Americans to visit Africa and suggested to those who wanted to take root in Africa to do so since millions of white people were now living in the “jungle”.

Mike Adjei is a very creative and experienced writer who has authored critically acclaimed books as “Death and Pain, Rawlings' Ghana' and “We Shall Never Forget”.