Home to Ghana.

This year's National Book Club Conference convenes in Ghana, West Africa, August 4-12, 2007, to celebrate its fifth anniversary.

In addition to some of the familiar American authors, the roster will include Ekow Eshun, the Ghanaian-born author of Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond (Pantheon, 2006), which is described as a moving and insightful documentation of Ekow's return to Africa from his home in London to learn about his homeland; and Akosua Busia, author of The Seasons of Beento Blackbird (Little, Brown & Co., 1996), a novel that spans from Ghana to London, to the United States and to the Caribbean.

"This will be the fifth anniversary of the NBCC, and I decided to do something very special to acknowledge the milestone. I wanted to mix the rich cultural experience of Africa with the great literature," says NBCC founder Curtis Bunn. "That 2007 is Ghana's fiftieth anniversary of independence makes it a great time to be there."

Two days, August 6 and 7, will be devoted to the conference with the remaining time allotted for touring Ghana, visiting museums, markets, ceremonies and the dungeons of the Cape Coast where captured Africans were held before transport for slavery.

The conference will also inaugurate the Bebe Moore Campbell Author Achievement Award, which, in the late author's memory, will annually acknowledge a writer whose literary work "demonstrates literary excellence and commitment to conveying significant stories on the African American community." A tour package is available. For more information and registration, visit http://www.nationalbookclubconference.com/ghana.aspx.