Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. The Clothes of Nakedness cleverly examines the complexities of human relationships, offering a gritty expose of the divide between rich and poor in modern Ghana.

Evil lurks in the streets of Accra and it goes by the name of Mystique Mysterious. A wealthy man with maleficent intentions, Mystique delights in manipulating the vulnerable with his exploitative deals. His bargains may seem fishy but when poverty is knocking on your door and options are limited, what choice do you have?

The Clothes of Nakedness is a gripping exploration into how, when pushed, ordinary people can fall into a vicious cycle of vice and corruption that only serves to benefit the ruling class.

Benjamin Kwakye is a novelist and lawyer, born in 1967 in Accra, Ghana.

While attending Dartmouth College, he served as editor of Spirit, the African American Society's literary journal. He later graduated from Harvard Law School.

His debut novel, The Clothes of Nakedness, won the regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for First Best Book in 1999. Kwakye also went on to win the prize again for Best Book with The Sun by Night in 2006 while his 2011 novel, The Other Crucifix, won a Gold Award in the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Adult Multicultural Fiction.

As well as practising law, Kwakye is a director of The Africa Education Initiative, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting science education in Africa. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S.

You can find out more by visiting benjaminkwakye.com