The Kojo Hand

The Kojo Hand is a novel about people pursuing their dreams-mainly a young woman in college and her friend and out-of-the classroom teacher Kojo Dedu, a scholar from Ghana with a calling to produce positive social change. The story is told from the point of view of Deanie Hollins, a nineteen-year-old student at a fictional university on Long Island. The story takes place in the spring and summer of 1972 and moves forward through questions and answers raised by Kojos possible connection with a coup d etat in his homeland and by Deanie's part-time work as a model in New York City.