Ghana · Canada · The world in between

Victor
Kwawukume

AUTHOR · JOURNALIST · STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONAL

Stories about power, exile, faith, family and the human consequences of systems under pressure.

Portrait of Victor Kwawukume
34 Published book collection
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A complete political thriller · Free ebook

The Second Obituary

At 6:12, he receives the president’s obituary.
At 6:14, he receives his own.

Both men are still alive. Both deaths have already been written. Presidential correspondent Eli Mensah has one morning to uncover who has put his name on an assassination that hasn’t happened.

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17+ Years in journalism
34 Published titles
2 Countries shaping the story
1 Public-interest mission
Books

Thirty-four books.
Many worlds.

Political thrillers, psychological suspense, crime, faith, migration, family legacy and Ghanaian memory—different genres returning to the same question: what happens to people when systems, history, faith and power place them under pressure?

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Current commercial spotlight · Geopolitical techno-thriller

The Map Was Wrong

Three hundred soldiers followed the map. The mountain was somewhere else.

When the AI map trusted by forty-seven governments sends a military column toward an ambush, a map analyst and the last operational hand cartographer uncover a system that can move borders, redirect armies and rewrite reality.

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Children’s picture book · Ages 4–8

The Backward Walk

Sometimes courage moves backward.

At Keta Lagoon, Elikem learns through Tanti Afi’s story that courage can be clever, supported and culturally remembered.

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Geopolitical techno-thriller

Beneath the Strait of Hormuz

A tanker is crippled in the Strait of Hormuz without ever being hit.

When maritime systems engineer Kweku Sarpong is drawn into the mystery, he discovers an invisible architecture turning data, insurance, law and trust into instruments of control across one of the world’s most vital waterways.

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Professional communications / AI

AI for Communicators

How to Research, Strategize, Create and Lead in the Age of Generative Intelligence.

A professional guide to generative AI for communicators, combining research, strategy, creation, governance, ethics and leadership through the VASCA Method.

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Philosophical fiction

The Theodicean Dialogue

What happens when God can no longer end the argument by being God?

A 55-chapter philosophical dialogue between God and Devil on justice, suffering, free will, hell, worship, mercy and whether power can justify itself.

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Literary conspiracy thriller

The Second Death of Romeo and Juliet

They survived the ending. Now they must survive the story the world built from their deaths.

A literary conspiracy thriller in which Romeo and Juliet awaken seven centuries later and discover their famous deaths may have been engineered.

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Literary speculative fiction

The Enchanted Pen

A pen that changes what is written—and what reality is willing to obey.

A literary speculative novel about writing, imagination and the dangerous moment language begins to alter reality.

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Political horror thriller

The Fanged President

Power does not always corrupt. Sometimes, it grows teeth.

A political horror thriller about constitutional limits, public trust and the moment service begins to feed on the people it was meant to protect.

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Supernatural thriller

The Insured Curse

A policy meant to protect a life may be the mechanism that curses it.

A dark supernatural thriller about insurance, fear, hidden consequence and the terrifying cost of protection.

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Ghanaian historical mystery

The Afadjato Conception

A national landmark conceals a conception powerful enough to rewrite who owns the story.

A place-driven Ghanaian mystery thriller of hidden maps, contested history, identity and conspiracy around Mount Afadjato.

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Political / intelligence thriller

The Intelligence Heartland

The real battlefield is not information. It is who gets to manufacture truth.

A political thriller of intelligence, hidden systems and institutional power where control of the narrative becomes strategic terrain.

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AI / surveillance thriller

The Algorithmic Lure

The algorithm does not force obedience. It makes the trap feel like your own decision.

An AI and surveillance thriller about technological conspiracy, institutional suspense and systems that learn how to steer human choice.

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Analytical / systems thriller

Unbalanced Probabilities

The numbers were never wrong. They were being made to choose the winner.

Forecasting, political systems and institutional manipulation collide in a thriller where probability itself becomes contested ground.

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Political / systems thriller

Operation Pandora

When the system opens the box, every government becomes a suspect.

A high-stakes conspiracy thriller about secrecy, institutional power and the consequences of a system no government can comfortably explain.

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Geopolitical techno-thriller

The Map Was Wrong

What if the map everyone trusted was the first lie?

A high-concept thriller about the danger of trusting the models, maps and assumptions that shape national decisions.

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Espionage / political-religious thriller

The Sackcloth Agent

An intelligence operative wears penitence as camouflage.

A morally conflicted operative carries a mission no agency can officially admit in an espionage thriller of faith, secrecy and power.

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Political thriller

The Abandoned President

He was protected by a system. Then that system left him.

A systems-driven story about power, loyalty and how quickly institutions retreat when survival is at stake.

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Historical conspiracy thriller

The Undying Duo of Padua

Two bloodlines. One archive. No single gospel.

Historical intrigue meets modern systems suspense in a mystery of continuity, memory, power and contested truth.

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Religious conspiracy / historical suspense

Seven Dangerous Friars

They are dangerous not because they kill. They are dangerous because of what they know.

Seven friars are linked by secrets crossing faith, history and conspiracy as knowledge becomes more dangerous than violence.

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Crime / procedural thriller

By Hook or by Crook

She built the case. Now she must break the system to save her son.

Detective Sarah Vance faces the collapse of the boundary between justice and crime when her son is kidnapped.

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Psychological suspense / dark mystery

Lurking Beneath

Every family buries something.

Secrets, family memory and buried consequences converge as what was concealed refuses to stay beneath the surface.

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Psychological / relationship suspense

With Love From Your Foe

The most dangerous message may come signed with love.

A psychological suspense story about intimacy used as camouflage and betrayal delivered in the language of affection.

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Psychological conspiracy thriller

The Lure of the Surface

The most dangerous lie is the surface designed to make you stop looking.

Forensic evidence, records, photographs and memory begin to contradict the public story of an admired family.

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Literary speculative fiction

What The Ink Did Not Say

The most dangerous part of a story may be what the ink leaves out.

A literary speculative novel about what words reveal, what they conceal and the consequences of stories left unwritten.

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Migration memoir

The Glass Ceiling of Life

What happens when the life you built no longer travels with you?

A memoir of migration, reinvention, caregiving and rebuilding identity across Ghana and Canada after personal and systemic rupture.

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Memoir / family legacy / Ghana

The Woman Who Sold Gobe

She fed a family. She built a future.

A tribute to a Ghanaian mother whose labour, faith and enterprise helped sustain her family across decades.

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Faith / migration / memoir

The God Who Followed Me Into Exile

Loss, calling and the grace to begin again.

A reflective journey through displacement, loss, calling and renewal—and the faith that travels into a new beginning.

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Political conspiracy thriller

Crouched For A Pounce

Someone is using truth, timing and predictable choices to make a country destabilize itself.

Seven years after strategist Elias Vorde disappeared in disgrace, investigative journalist Sena Kpodo finds a pattern of genuine evidence and lawful decisions pushing Kintaba toward constitutional crisis.

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Political conspiracy thriller

The Missing Addend

A perfect balance can hide a country's deepest lie.

Auditor Dr. Amara Mensah discovers that a perfectly reconciled system may conceal people, permissions and a hidden continuity architecture that has outlived its original emergency.

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Romantic psychological thriller

Ninety-Nine Days in Love Paradise

Nine couples enter a 99-day love experiment. Two discover they were never matched by chance.

On a private Gulf of Guinea island, a love experiment becomes an investigation into hidden behavioural research, consent, surveillance and institutional power.

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Children’s fiction · Ages 7–9

The Lost-and-Found Planet

A missing sock returns with a strange stone—and a tiny planet is hiding behind the lost-property cupboard.

Nia, Ben and Sami discover a miniature world whose matching system keeps confusing similar objects. Returning things to the right people will take observation, testing and honesty.

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Thriller / systems fiction

Substitution by Elimination

She thought she had earned her place. Someone had made room.

Forensic accountant Nadia Soro finds relocation payments made before officials resigned—and uncovers a private programme that selects promising replacements and arranges the vacancies they need.

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Literary romance

When Sea Water Turned Sweet

Some loves survive distance. Others survive what was hidden between the letters.

A literary romance of separation, memory, family intervention and the long consequences of messages that never reached the people they were meant for.

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Political techno-thriller

The Deviant Defiance

ORACLE can predict dangerous behaviour. Then it begins shaping the future it claims merely to foresee.

Dr. Elias Vorn helped build a system meant to protect society. When citizens are scored, isolated and pushed toward predicted outcomes—and Elias himself is classified a deviant—he must confront the line between prediction and control.

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Political conspiracy thriller

The Referee’s Other Whistle

Every institution has rules. Someone decides when they matter.

After a celebrated referee dies, investigative journalist Mara Kweku receives a second black whistle and uncovers a clandestine settlement mechanism used by powerful actors to resolve crises beyond public view.

About Victor

A career built around making systems legible.

Victor Kwawukume is a Ghanaian-Canadian author, award-winning journalist and strategic communications professional based in Toronto. His career spans more than seventeen years in journalism, including governance reporting and presidential correspondence in Ghana.

His writing explores power, migration, faith, resilience, family legacy, identity and the human consequences of systems. Across fiction and non-fiction, the recurring concern is not simply what institutions do, but what their decisions do to people.

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Presidency Former Presidential Correspondent covering Ghana's executive branch and national affairs.
Canada A second chapter shaped by migration, reinvention, communications and community service.
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