Dr Peprah-Gyamfi, who was conferred with the 2008 Best African Writer Award by the Africa Youth Foundation, a non-governmental organisation based in Bonn, Germany, noted that success rarely came the easy way. The acclaimed author stressed "With hard work, honesty, dedication, perseverance and the fear of God, however, victory is sure to smile at our efforts". The books are: The Call that Changed my Life; A Letter to my Dying Mother: Surviving in the West; Three Cheers for Ghana, Be Encouraged in Jesus; and Seeing God Through the Human Body. The Call that changed my Life traces the author's encounter with destiny when he was motivated by a divine call to leave Nigeria, where he had gone to seek greener pastures, to travel to Europe, where he eventually enrolled in a medical school in Germany to train as a, doctor. The travails of a young African in a foreign land and his daily struggle for survival, against the backdrop of expectations from his people back home are, captured in the soul-touching A Letter to my Dying Mother: Surviving in the West. It is a must-read for any young person desirous of pursuing a course in the West to prepare him or her for the tough terrain and get his or her mind disabused of any idealistic tendencies. The easy-to-read Three Cheers for Ghana was inspired by the author's visit to Ghana with his family in 2006 and the developments that met him everywhere he went - from 'the dual carriageway from the African Liberation Circle to the Tetteh-Quarshie Interchange, the high-rise buildings in parts of Accra, the numerous hotels which had sprung up in the cities, to the sheer spread of Accra right down to Dodowa, Kasoa and Aburi. For him Ghana had come a long way and deserved to be cheered, hence .Three Cheers for Ghana. The well-attended event was chaired by the Head of the Department of History of the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr Akosua Perbie.
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